https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
--- Comment #96 from Brandon Harris <[email protected]> 2011-09-17 03:43:45 UTC --- (In reply to comment #94) ---->8 [SNIP] 8<---- > Furthermore, I know when I'm being patronized, as it has happened to me > innumerable times in my 21 years of living (it goes with having PDD-NOS but > still being able to have a coherent conversation); I have been above. I'm not sure how much I can impress upon you that you are most decidedly *not* being patronized. If anything, quite the opposite: this issue has been assigned a significant amount of resources within the Foundation (in fact, it's pretty much my "go to" task right now). It is possible that you're experiencing a disconnect between the "culture" of Wikipedia and the "culture" of development. Developers, programmers, designers - we tend to be a bit harsh in our language from time to time, and make comments that can appear to be hostile or patronizing. However, they're *not* - these comments are simply direct, and meant to be taken both at face value and with some self-deprecating humor. I can tell you for true that this issue has been near the forefront of our talks for the past several weeks, and the primary focus of conversation for the past week or so, and I expect it will remain at that volume for the next several weeks (possibly months). If we were patronizing you, there would have been simple pat on the head and nothing more. Instead, your issues have taken center stage and we are actively working on ways in which we can learn more about the way that *you* do your job and ways that we can *make it better*. So please, seriously, engage with us on the Mediawiki page. We're trying to set up an easy system for you to be able to show us exactly how *you* do NPP (everyone is different, and we want to have as much data as possible to work with). I, for one, am very excited to work on this series of problems. They're hard problems, which makes them extremely interesting to me - which means that I'm going to latch onto them like a pit bull. I know that won't mean much to you right now (you don't trust anything I have to say), but if you ask around you'll find that people who know me and have worked with me will tell you that if I think something is worth fighting for, I'll fight to the end for it. And this, I think, is worth fighting for. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- 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
