Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-18 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Juergen Fenn wrote: > Only after the last editor has been been driven away > Only after the last article written by a volunteer has been published > Only after the last vandal has been reverted by a volunteer > Then will you find that money alone cannot write an encyclopædia. > See: https://de.w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread svetlana
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, at 23:42, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > At the Board meeting before Wikimania, Lila laid out her strategy to put in > place best practices for product development. We will communicate sooner, we > will prioritize smarter, we will test more, and we will achieve better > outcome

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Richard Farmbrough
This is all very nice "going forward", but it completely misses the salient points. 1. It is an egregious social blunder to act as Erik has done - he apologised (sort of) on the English Wiki, he should at the very least have the grace to do so on the German, 2. There are concerns about the MV s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Martin Rulsch
The Board did not even consider to apologize for the rushed interference of WMF staff on de:MediaWiki:Common.js which caused so much trouble in the last days? No empathy for German Wikimedians who feel completely overruled and locked out from maintaining its display and implementing community conse

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Juergen Fenn
Only after the last editor has been been driven away Only after the last article written by a volunteer has been published Only after the last vandal has been reverted by a volunteer Then will you find that money alone cannot write an encyclopædia. See: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissagung_der

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Jan-Bart, thanks for this statement. Thanks to all on the board and Lila working on this, the improvement of our website and trying to recover the trust of our community. /Manuel Am 14.08.2014 15:42, schrieb Jan-Bart de Vreede: > Some of you have asked the Board and its individual members for