Only after the last editor has been been driven away Only after the last article written by a volunteer has been published Only after the last vandal has been reverted by a volunteer Then will you find that money alone cannot write an encyclopædia.
See: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissagung_der_Cree Regards, Jürgen. 2014-08-14 15:42 GMT+02:00 Jan-Bart de Vreede <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > Some of you have asked the Board and its individual members for feedback. > Some of us are already in conversation with you or are planning to answer on > different pages. This is our general common statement: > > The Board supports the decision to protect the Media Viewer roll out. Our > platform powers a top-5 website. We need operational protocols that are > consistent with this position. This includes making improvements, rather than > a tendency towards reverting to the status quo. > > At the Board meeting before Wikimania, Lila laid out her strategy to put in > place best practices for product development. We will communicate sooner, we > will prioritize smarter, we will test more, and we will achieve better > outcomes. Her vision is to involve the community at each step of product > development, including more structured feedback stages and reviews. We > endorse this vision. > > We realize that there is concern about the superprotect user right and how it > affects power balance and influence on content and administration. We > recognize the concern that we need to explain and introduce our measures > better. However, stability of the platform is necessary as we seek to improve > our sites, and, for that reason, we support the creation of this tool. We > also understand that with more robust rollout plans and better staged > community feedback - as Lila envisions - the tool should rarely be used. > We urge you to focus on specific improvements you'd like to see in the Media > Viewer and the roll-out process. Lila intends to incorporate that feedback as > she plans to improve Media Viewer and the process for future product roll > outs. > The Wikimedia Foundation needs to be in a position to make software and > configuration changes for which it is responsible. We expect restrictions of > MediaWiki code-level editing to be a temporary step to enable us to move > forward with improvements. As we say, Media Viewer should be improved; our > procedures to date have not yet met the high standards we want to set for > ourselves. Lila wants to address both now, and we need to give her the space > to do so. She has our full support and confidence as she tackles this tough > challenge. > > On behalf of the Wikimedia Board of Trustees > > Jan-Bart de Vreede > Chair > Board of Trustees > Wikimedia Foundation > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
