(branching this into a new thread as it gets quite off topic) Pine: Why do you think the solution lies with the Wikimedia Foundation?
Lodewijk 2017-03-18 22:52 GMT+01:00 Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com>: > My point is more or less the same one that you're making. Communications > (too much and too little) and information overload are both challenges. I > don't think there's going to be a silver bullet solution, but I hope that > WMF will invest effort into addressing this set of problems during the next > Annual Plan. Some of this is WMF-specific, but some of it also relates to > how we've organized ourselves in the community through organic growth and > over time we've developed so many channels that one wonders if we would > benefit from some consolidation and pruning. > > Pine > > > On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > You mean, "how to deal with people who complain they weren't consulted > > then turn around and complain they were excessively consulted"? At > > this point, the appropriate thing would be to put forward a plausible > > solution rather than complain they did the thing you claimed they > > hadn't sufficiently done. > > > > > > - d. > > > > > > > > > > On 18 March 2017 at 20:39, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Chris, > > > > > > That last paragraph assumes that people (1) know where to look and (2) > > have > > > hours to spend watching countless channels for announcements. On the > > other > > > hand, there's also a problem of burying people in so many > announcements, > > > surveys, and consultations that people start to tune it all out. This > is > > > part of a larger set of communications and "information overload" > > problems > > > that I'm hoping that WMF will address, particularly during its next > > Annual > > > Plan. > > > > > > Pine > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > > 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > > wiki/Wikimedia-l > > 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
