Then, why'd we hear something so dismissive as this? " However, among those who are interested in organizational discussions (I'd call them "activists", I'm unsure how many there are, probably between 5 and 10 thousand, give or take) some will definitely be unhappy about the recommendations. Some may leave, as always happens when decisions are made."
And if they're between five and ten thousand, why would they, consisting of thousands, be outweighed by "working groups" consisting of little more than a dozen people? That's no way to run a project. It's no way to run anything. "Well, their vote counts for a hundred of yours...". That's not how we do things, at all. Either things are accepted or rejected by Wikimedia members, but every single long-term, good-faith contributor counts the same as any other. No one's voice is "more equal" than another. Regards, Todd On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 3:40 PM Dariusz Jemielniak <[email protected]> wrote: > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
