On 21 June 2010 22:25, Liam Wyatt <[email protected]> wrote: > If you don't allow for private discussion and post-mortems within a group of > people, then the likelyhood of effective management and feedback decreases. > This is not because the Wikimania team is being secretive, but because > talking only amongst yourselves that know each other best gives a place to > air honest feedback in a way that would not happen if that feeback between > the team was forced to be public. Furthermore, there is sensitive > information about things like sponsors, finances, relationships between > people that simply don't need to be made public as it would cause more harm > than good. Every chapter has a private executive channel, and even the > Wikimedia movement has an internal mailing list - none of these imply that > the rest of the community is "external" but simply that some things are best > kept private. Furthermore, you can't actually force people to talk in > public, all you do is drive it underground turning what is a legitimate > internal discusison into a cabal.
The discussion can happen in private, but the results need to be public or there is really no point. The people discussing it will probably never run a Wikimania again, so they don't really need to know what did and didn't work. Anything that needs to be confidential can be redacted from the public version and the un-redacted version only shared with people that specifically need to know (teams organising future Wikimanias, and maybe those bidding to organise them). _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
