Given that enWP alone has 123,540 active editors as of this morning,[1] it’s not exactly a stretch…
-greg [1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wikipedias > On Oct 6, 2015, at 3:14 PM, MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote: > > Do you really believe the community consists of several 100.000 people? > Am 06.10.2015 21:01 schrieb "Joseph Fox" <[email protected]>: > >> On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 17:27 Steinsplitter Wiki < >> [email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> To be honest: I am not surprised at all. >>> >>> Wikimedia Foundation is becoming moor and moor centralized. They no >> longer >>> care about the community, even if there is huge community consensus about >>> something. >>> >>> Why is there a secret committee needed? It is easier to ask the >> community. >>> >> >> While I agree it's important to sort things with the community (since that >> is the lifeblood of the projects), are you seriously suggesting that it's >> easier to gauge the consensus of hundreds of thousands of people rather >> than make a decision in a smaller committee, secret or otherwise? >> >> Joe >> >> >>> >>> I am disappointed >>> >>>> Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:13:13 -0400 >>>> From: [email protected] >>>> To: [email protected] >>>> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost >>>> >>>> Evidently the Signpost has scooped the WMF by revealing that Montreal >> has >>>> been selected for the 2017 Wikimania host city in a secret process that >>>> completed this past August. [1] >>>> >>>> It seems like the community could have been looped into this new method >>>> before it was a done deal. >>>> >>>> ~Nathan >>>> >>>> [1] >>>> >>> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-30/News_and_notes >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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] >>> < >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/[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> > _______________________________________________ > 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>
