I'm waiting for the day when Magnus will have a profile on the New Yorker, but this is nice, for the time being :-)
Aubrey On Mon, Jan 18, 2016 at 2:34 PM, Andrew Lih <[email protected]> wrote: > There’s an excellent profile of Magnus Manske in the Wikimedia blog today. > It’s hard to think of people more important to the movement than Magnus has > been since 2001. > > Selected quotes: "...we have gone from slowdown to standstill; the > interface has changed little in the last ten years or so, and all the > recent changes have been fought teeth-and-claw by the communities, > especially the larger language editions. From the Media Viewer, the Visual > Editor, to Wikidata transclusion, all have been resisted by vocal groups of > editors, not because they are a problem, but because they represent > change... all websites, including Wikipedia must obey the Red Queen > hypothesis: you have to run just to stand still. This does not only affect > Wikipedia itself, but the entire Wikimedia ecosystem... if we wall our > garden against change, against new users, new technologies our work of 15 > years is in danger of fading away... we are in an ideal position to try new > things. We have nothing to lose, except a little time.” > > Link: > > https://blog.wikimedia.org/2016/01/18/fifteen-years-wikipedia-magnus-manske/ > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [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 New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
