On Wed 26 Jun 2019 at 00:58, Amir Sarabadani <ladsgr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have no comment on Wikimedia Space. IMHO it's too soon to criticize it > but I want to point out to a pattern that I have been seeing in the past > couple of months by several people in this very mailing list. > > You have been repeating the word "WMF" (four time, for four different > purposes) and treating it as a big monolith which is far from truth, WMF > consists of different teams with different focuses, priorities, goals, and > processes. > > This type of comments also increases the tension by promoting concept of > "volunteer vs. WMF". It's not a war, we have the same mission. Stop > criticizing a huge organization devoted to support volunteers (which you > can't deny all of its good deeds, like keeping servers the world-class > website running while being horribly understaffed, we have only 1% of > Google's staff) because you disagree with this project or that program. > > Criticize projects, criticize actions (which can be valid), but don't be > like "here we go again, WMF". Largest possible +1 to this. Thanks Amir. Dan _______________________________________________ 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>