On 7/8/2026 12:52 PM, Luis Villa via Wikimedia-l wrote:
- Scale of impact is important, but it isn’t everything. Sometimes we’ll have to build things without knowing if they’ll scale, or even perhaps knowing that they won’t scale (eg Depths of Wikipedia is one of the best community-builders we have even though it has “only” a few million followers). “That’s good but it won’t scale to enwiki” can never be allowed to be a blocker for anyone. If the experiment is actually great, then we’ll figure out a way to get it onto enwiki. Or not! That shouldn’t stop people.
At this point, no single initiative (whether community, chapter, or WMF-led) will have an inherent capacity to scale to enwiki. To do so would require corporate-style resources with a corresponding top-down mandate for implementation, and risk (rightly) triggering resistance to the point of launching a true durable fork, for once. Instead, the best approach would be to find ideas that are good enough to propagate, encourage them, and when they have propagated enough, they will scale with relatively little intervention needed.
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