Sure.
Wikimedia Foundation employees inherently have more privilege and weight
in MediaWiki developer community than the volunteers do, especially less
participating ones. Power dynamics of the discussion between a volunteer
and an employee (and, sometimes even more generally on Phabricator) are
structured in a way in that more than frequently an end decision will be
taken not by volunteers or all Wikimedia community, but by employees or
people that are more well-versed in MediaWiki development spaces (who
also can happen to be employees).
Code of conduct is important to be enforced, but, in my opinion, there
should be a difference in how it’s enforced. To volunteers that help the
movement, there should be no unacceptable language, as it is a way (and
a purpose of something like code of conduct) to make MediaWiki
development spaces more welcoming to future volunteers.
However, employees, while in their capacity, should be (in reasonable
amounts) less guarded against non-constructive criticism, because at
many times all you can provide to someone’s work decisions could only be
non-constructive because you know that no minds and hearts will be
changed by any amount of constructive criticism. I am, of course, not
talking about any kinds of serious stuff (Jimmy Wales language), but
more about ‘WTF language’.
Oleg
On 08/08/2018 19:20, Arlo Breault wrote:
On Aug 8, 2018, at 9:42 AM, Saint Johann <[email protected]> wrote:
especially when said to Wikimedia employees as opposed to volunteers.)
Can you elaborate on that?
_______________________________________________
Wikitech-l mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
