Hoi,
What makes sense is to spend money effectively. When the German chapter
decides to change its way drastically, it does not follow that they deserve
the same amount of money no questions asked. When they decide to change,
they can provide plans that allow for the evaluation of the new track.
Asking for money because of the need for change is no problem.
The notion that the community knows best is as much propaganda as anything.
Maybe it does, it depends on the plans and in the results to learn if the
German community has the right end of the stick.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 24 November 2014 at 14:31, Juergen Fenn <schneeschme...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> 2014-11-24 13:44 GMT+01:00 Ilario Valdelli <valde...@gmail.com>:
> > The problem is that any change means "change management".
>
> But who was it that authorised which change? I would like to focus on
> what makes sense, which means that any technocratic category just
> won't lead us anywhere. In the end, what once was referred to as the
> Wikimedia movement has become a strange lot of organisations that have
> lost contact with the community of editors. The only thing that keeps
> them together in the end is money -- which is a bourgeois trade of
> old. And isn't it ironic that at a time when the German chapter
> understood that it had to intensify links with the community and
> partly already succeeded in getting back on track it is given less
> money, severing the chapter from its peers. That's no way still to
> empower the remaining editing community which is best served locally.
> Cutting the local chapters short and poor results in less support for
> editors, of course.
>
> Regards,
> Jürgen.
>
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