בתאריך יום ה׳, 2 ביולי 2026 ב-9:51 מאת Michael Snow via Wikimedia-l < [email protected]>:
> Movement Strategy efforts have relied in part on the Foundation hiring > consultants who could assist in framing discussion, and also provide some > of the sustained presence that makes it easier for volunteers to contribute > even when they can only do so with intermittent intention. Could that be > helpful piece of responding to this call? I think it might need to be > something more than a small working group. > No. I was there. Those consultants only got in the way and provided no value. Wikimedians from all over the world came together and brought up good ideas. Then those consultants, or facilitators, or coaches, or whatever, said that those ideas are "too narrow" or "too broad" or "too detailed" or "too general" or "too low-level" or "too high-level". They said it about every single idea that Wikimedians brought up. And then they insisted on rewriting those ideas and rewriting them yet again into mush. I said back then that I'm afraid that it's not going to work. Six years later, here we are. So please, no. No consultants, facilitators, or coaches. They cost a lot of money, and they may be "professional", and their professionalism may work well (or not) for other organizations. I don't care very much about other organizations. I care about Wikimedia. Wikimedia is special. For more than twenty years, Wikimedia volunteers have been building the best, the most popular, and the most multilingual encyclopedia in history without consultants. Wikimedians do need money, but this money should be invested directly into what Wikimedians say they need and not into consultants who look professional, but only get in the way.
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