Well, "the intention of building an encyclopedia based on a neutral point of view achieved by verifiable information attributed to reliable independent sources and disseminated under a free licence" is close to many of us (me including). I think it is quite unlikely that recommendations challenging every single part of that intent, in the understanding of the majority of our community, will go through.
It is my honest belief that the WMF Board of Trustees does not intend to radically reduce the number of volunteers involved. In any case, I suggest we wait and see how the recommendations shape up anyhow. best, dj On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 5:22 PM Jeff Hawke <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Dariusz It seems very likely that the majority of the 60,000 contributors you mention are there with the intention of building an encyclopaedia based on a neutral point of view achieved by verifiable information attributed to reliable independent sources and disseminated under a free licence. Since there are recommendations that would challenge every single part of that intent, it seems reasonable to assume that some non-trivial proportion of the volunteer workforce will not wish to continue to participate in a project that has so dramatically changed its entire raison d'etre. Jeff -- ________________________________________________________ [http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl/minds.jpg]<http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak kierownik katedry MINDS (Management in Networked and Digital Societies) Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego http://NeRDS.kozminski.edu.pl <http://nerds.kozminski.edu.pl/> Ostatnie artykuły: * Dariusz Jemielniak, Maciej Wilamowski (2017) Cultural Diversity of Quality of Information on Wikipedias<http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/cultures%20of%20wikipedias.pdf> Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 68: 10. 2460–2470. * Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Wikimedia Movement Governance: The Limits of A-Hierarchical Organization<http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/wikimedia_governance.pdf> Journal of Organizational Change Management 29: 3. 361-378. * Dariusz Jemielniak, Eduard Aibar (2016) Bridging the Gap Between Wikipedia and Academia<http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/bridging.pdf> Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 67: 7. 1773-1776. * Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Breaking the Glass Ceiling on Wikipedia<http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/glass-ceiling.pdf> Feminist Review 113: 1. 103-108. * Tadeusz Chełkowski, Peter Gloor, Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Inequalities in Open Source Software Development: Analysis of Contributor’s Commits in Apache Software Foundation Projects<http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0152976.PDF>, PLoS ONE 11: 4. e0152976. _______________________________________________ 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: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
