On 2016-02-18 21:20, Leila Zia wrote:
Hi Dariusz,
I want to share with you the following relatively scattered thoughts
and
leave it to you to decide how to continue engaging with us. :-) I hope
you
find them helpful:
* BoT has been too silent, given the state of matters. I'm much more
worried about our volunteers when I say this, than the WMF's staff
(which
I'm one of).
To be honest, most volunteers do not care. We understand of course that
if things would go really wrong, for example, servers stop running, or
money runs out and ads are introduced, or English Wikipedia admins
continue resigning/being desysopped without proper replacement, so that
we have ten active admins, then we are in serious trouble. But as far as
things are running quasi-normal, we just continue. I was making 50 to
100 edits per day five years ago, I am making 50 to 100 edits per day
now, I will probably still be making 50 to 100 edits per day in five
years, unless I die or leave because of a serious demotivation - and
this demotivation is unlikely to be related to WMF. I think staff are
way more vulnerable to all kinds of events.
* Because of the lack of clear communications by the BoT, I'm uncertain
whether there is an acknowledgement by the BoT about the issues we are
facing. What can assure me at the moment is to see a list of items the
BoT
sees as problematic, and a plan for addressing them, and a schedule for
when we should expect seeing them addressed. (Half-jokingly: maybe we
need
a phabrictor board for the BoT to track specific tasks that can be
shared
publicly and their prioritization).
This is a cool idea. It is a pity it has zero chances to be realized.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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