În mie., 26 aug. 2020 la 13:07, Dan Garry (Deskana) <djgw...@gmail.com> a scris:
>
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2020 at 22:26, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > The pattern I'm seeing is: team gets a big project (in this case UCoC)
> > -> team hires -> newbie makes good faith edits that are known to cause
> > offense to some members of the community.
>
>
> This is basically always going to happen when new people are onboarded, or,
> indeed, as people make mistakes. By my observations, this happens a lot
> less nowadays than it used to. This is anecdotal on my part, but in the
> absence of any rigorous study of the frequency with which this occurs, this
> thread as a whole is anecdotal. That's not to say it's not valuable to
> discuss it, but it's worth bearing that in mind.
Thanks for the response Dan!
A rigorous study is IMHO impossible, since we're lacking a rigorous
definition of the limits between WMF and community.
>
>
> > This pattern can be broken
> > only if the organization has a process to teach newcomers things that
> > seem obvious to old timers ("don't go over community decisions if you
> > can avoid it", "don't change content", "try to talk to people before
> > doing a major change", "not everyone speaks English", "affiliates are
> > not the community" etc.)
> >
> > My question is: does the WMF has such a process?
> >
>
> When people are onboarded a lot of this is explained to them, and people
> are encouraged to reach out to those more experienced with the communities.
> That people get it wrong occasionally is expected.
OK, but how is this done precisely? Are there written docs? Mentors?
Is cross-team help common? Or is this kept at the anecdotal level ("oh
yeah, you should also keep in mind..." )?
Strainu
>
> Dan
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