Hi All, I cannot support the idea that the movement strategy is designed for functionaries only. We encouraged editors and volunteers to meet and discuss the strategy locally and also gave them (financial) support so that they were able to attend the international conferences and take their part in the discussions. Frans (chair WMNL)
*Frans Grijzenhout*, voorzitter / chair +31 6 5333 9499 -- *Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland* Mariaplaats 3 - 3511 LH Utrecht Kamer van Koophandel 17189036 http://www.wikimedia.nl/ 2018-07-25 11:01 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav Blanter <ymb...@gmail.com>: > Hi Jane, > > I think Andres is completely right of this description, that the whole > exercise was designed by functionaries for functionaries, and nobody ever > thought that volunteers working on the projects could be involved. > > It is indeed right that many of those do not care about the strategy > discussions and just edit in their projects (though even say a Wikipedia > editor from time to time confronts the situation that Commons and Wikidata > exist but do not necessarily have the same policies as their project). But > many do care. In the 2010 strategy discussions, we had the volunteer > editors providing the input, and this is why this was a success. > Apparently, this time there were a large number of applications from the > volunteer editors who are not functionaries. > > Now, you can say that functionaries and staffers are sometimes editors as > well. Indeed, some of them are and are well respected in the communities > (Maggie Dennis is a great example). Some edited the projects before but > since then have gone inactive and have no idea what is going on in the > communities. Some are openly fighting with the communities and have no or > very little respect there. Some never edited. Well, you can of course make > a selection and hope that these selected people understand everything about > the variety of our projects. May be. Or may be not. We had in the past very > bad decisions which WMF, with varying degree of success, tried to impose on > the projects. I often had an impression that people making these decisions > had no understanding of what is actually going on the projects, and do not > even know whom to ask. > > Now the whole process only convinces me that this would repeat more and > more often. Especially since in the first round much of the project > feedback was ignored. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 9:28 AM, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hmm. Yes and no. Yes the May 2017 conference suffered from some > interesting > > selection bias, but no the people there were not all brainwashed into > > forgetting their "wildness". We are all still wild wild Wikipedians at > > heart, speaking for the 2006 cohort in its entirety. I really doubt > whether > > the WMF is trying to shove us all in a direction of their choosing. I > think > > that we are in fact split down the middle into parties that believe "some > > languages are better than others" and "let's save all existing languages > on > > the planet, including all of their fonts ever used on- and offline". Then > > there is a huge discrepancy in workflow for these people and the folks > who > > work in just one language and never think of language as a movement topic > > at all. Among this monolingual crowd (many of whom do not subscribe to > any > > mailing list or other communication outlets) are the overlapping groups > > between the "field workers" and the "library workers". The field workers > > tend to operate more by a "drive-by" methodology, and the "library > workers" > > tend to operate more by a "step-by-step" methodology. I respectfully > submit > > that we have all dabbled in all of these worlds and therefore we all have > > enough common sense to shout "Whoa!" if something really really wrong > gets > > proposed. But in the past I have felt quite strongly that something was > > really really wrong, but it turned out it was just a factor of me being > > unaware of workflow difficulties experienced by others. So e.g. > personally > > I was against the idea of "protected pages" but have come around to > seeing > > they are useful - even on Wikidata. > > > > On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Anders Wennersten < > > m...@anderswennersten.se> wrote: > > > > > As I see it the strategy process is run for the functionaries in the > > > movement and by them. People with focus on contributing to the projects > > are > > > not involved, when volunteers is mentioned it is mostly people running > > > worskhops for beginners etc, a kind of semi functionaries, not the hard > > > core contributes. > > > > > > This could be a good thing and foster a new set of moment leaders, > fully > > > in agreement with goals and strategy. It could also be seen as a > > weakness, > > > as we do not recognize the more "wild" (but creative)y culture in our > > > communities and only have the "nice" and obedient culture being > accepted. > > > > > > Facts > > > > > > The vision was really created in Wikiconf 2017 by functionaries > > > > > > The way forward was defined by Wikiconf 2017 by functionaries > > > > > > The set up of work groups was from the beginning set up to include > > (only) > > > functionaries (time requirement, and first it was also talked of > > candidates > > > should be endorsed by local chapters). And the actual selection was not > > > done transparent as is the culture of the communities but by "boss" > > > selection (I only feel the movement is starting to resemble a big > > company, > > > not the vibrant communities) > > > > > > Anders > > > > > > > > > > > > Den 2018-07-24 kl. 21:29, skrev Yaroslav Blanter: > > > > > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:16 PM, David Cuenca Tudela < > dacu...@gmail.com > > > > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> I do not know what really happened but if I listen to what has been > said > > >> here and earlier on similar occasions, my conclusion is that for the > > >> Strategy Team we - volunteers who are working on the projects but are > > not > > >> associated with the chapters, do not show up at Wikimania, do not > attend > > >> real-life tutorials organized by WMF - just do not exist. > > >> > > >> If this is the case, this is a serious gap to be bridged. So far I > have > > >> net > > >> see even an acknowledgement of its existence. > > >> > > >> Cheers > > >> Yaroslav > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > > >> i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik > > >> i/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/wik > > > i/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>
