Out of curiosity, why are all of these proposals so focused on people who click the edit button. The overwhelming percentage of our users (half a billion a month, if I recall correctly) never click that button. The vast majority of our donors never click that button. The massive majority of active and very active editors don't participate in Board selection activities. I won't say that the editing community is unimportant - in fact I believe it is extremely important - but every proposal that is coming forward seems exclusively focused on "empowering" a small percentage of the editing group over all other stakeholders. I'd like to see some suggestions that are more balanced.
Risker On 24 February 2016 at 22:27, George Herbert <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Feb 24, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Anthony Cole <ahcole...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > George, the WMF, particularly under the Sue/Erik regime - but as best as > I > > can tell from its very beginning - has had a propensity to privilege its > > view of what's best over the community's view. Superprotect. Visual > editor. > > When the community has pushed back at WMF behaviour that suits the WMF, > > that the WMF thinks helps them in their mission, the WMF has historically > > just gone ahead and ignored what the community sees as being in the > > encyclopaedia's best interest. This bunch of tech geeks and silicon > valley > > entrepreneurs holds the whip hand in this relationship. It really should > be > > the other way round. Denny's model; Sarah's model. I don't really care. > But > > this tail-wagging-dog thing is just not right. > > There are several ways to look at this. One includes the view that the > Foundation and Board exist to protect and encourage the Movement, not just > the loudest editor communities. And that there are wider issues for the > Movement, including things for users, things keeping users from editing, > and things pushing people out of active editing that the Board and > Foundation rightly should be paying a lot of attention to. > > There are both valid issues the editor community has objected to, and > things the editor community (enwiki at least) is grossly dysfunctional > about that the Board and Foundation must still focus on. Both separation > for perspective and feedback and relationship care are needed. > > > George William Herbert > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
