On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > I have no idea what the board members are saying on the internal-L mailing > list; however, if they're expressing concerns about behaviour there, > they might want to actually mention it onwiki on the projects where there > are concerns. Themselves. Wearing their Board hat, rather than their "I'm > just an editor" hat. They're actually selected to be leaders of the WMF, and > it would make it a darn sight easier to change community practices if the > Trustees would be much more public in their pronouncements and sharing their > experiences and observations. Internal-L is the last place where that will > be helpful, with its extremely restrictive distribution and chapter-heavy > membership. > > Risker/Anne > _______________________________________________
Risker has pinned the issue; what the English Wikipedia suffers from is a lack of leadership. The global, decentralised, community self-managed nature of Wikipedia has allowed for many great things... but it has its drawbacks, among them the complete inability to enforce social norms. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
