On 25 October 2012 14:07, Guillaume Paumier <[email protected]> wrote:
> As you'll probably agree, communication between Wikipedia contributors > and "tech people" (primarily MediaWiki developers, but also designers > and other engineers) hasn't always been ideal. In recent years, >From the community's side, awareness of issues is good, but is not always matched by the framing and articulation. Given that tech requires spec - a good way to annoy a developer is waffling about what is wrong rather than specifying a fix - the potential for mismatch in communications is high. Now I have thought for a little while now that "getting smarter all round" is what we must do, rather than the traditional blame games. So more meeting in the middle is what has to happen. One thing that could be an improvement is more exposition from the tech side, less meeting a request or query with a rhetorical question (which has happened to me, even face-to-face). Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
