https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67477
--- Comment #30 from Bawolff (Brian Wolff) <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Lane Rasberry from comment #27) > I am disappointed that there is not a process in place for the Wikimedia > Foundation staff to provide support for accepting large GLAM uploads. This > donation is one of the most generous to be given in the history of the > Wikimedia movement and it is unfortunate that we do not have infrastructure > to promise more than sketchy and unpredictable responses to valuable > potential partners. > > I do not find any fault with anyone because we have not identified anyone at > the Wikimedia Foundation whose responsibility it is to provide community > support for media donations, but there is a problem here in that extremely > valuable donations surfaced by Wikimedia community members are not getting > respect or acknowledgment in the expected channels for assistance. > > Again, no one is to blame for this but this does put a burden on the > community to make a demand for change and acknowledgement. I wish that > community relationships were not so poorly regarded, and again I emphasize - > this is a systemic communication problem, and not the fault of any one or > any group. Id be interested in hearing what happened here from the wmf point of view. There was rumours floating around that the disks were sent incorrectly and never made it to the wmf, at least the first time around. (is that true?). In the past this sort of thing has been handled quite easily, so what happened this time. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
