Hi Aaron, which of Juergen's statements do you mean? my question is: do you have any evidence for the contrary?
best, Claudia ---------- Original Message ----------- From:Aaron Halfaker <[email protected]> To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research- [email protected]> Sent:Thu, 4 Jun 2015 09:55:02 -0500 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread) > Hi Juergen, That's an interesting hypothesis. Do > you have any evidence to support it? > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Juergen Fenn > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Am 04.06.2015 um 16:33 schrieb Samuel Klein <[email protected]>: > > > > > Context: reduced traffic on wikimedia-l. > > > Is this a sign of poor community health? > > > > Reduced traffic on Wikimedia-l is mostly due to list moderation. All > > critical content has been filtered for a while. I became aware of it only > > recently when I posted a critical remark which was rejected. > > > > The Foundation has not only introduced Superprotect and Superban, it has > > also got a firm grip on all communication channels whatsoever. This will > > intensify as, we have just learned, new staff will be hired for > > communication. The WMF no longer needs the community, it does all the > > traffic itself (staff, chapters, etc.). > > > > Of course this shift from crowdsourcing to staff has to be paid for, hence > > the interest in an ever-increasing flow of donations and hence the interest > > in the Alexa ranking of Wikipedia. > > > > Best, > > Jürgen. > > _______________________________________________ > > Wiki-research-l mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > > ------- End of Original Message ------- _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
