Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-10 Thread David Gerard
2009/1/10 Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net: on 1/10/09 6:59 AM, David Gerard at dger...@gmail.com wrote: I note that I have asked you before if you've actually attempted to work directly with the community on-wiki, and you demurred:

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-10 Thread Marc Riddell
on 1/10/09 6:59 AM, David Gerard at dger...@gmail.com wrote: I note that I have asked you before if you've actually attempted to work directly with the community on-wiki, and you demurred: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-January/097693.html You claim to be defending the

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Marc Riddell
Marc Riddell writes: The Foundation - and those who represent it - seem to have forgotten that people are at the heart of what they are there to do. And, without the heart, it cannot live. on 1/8/09 4:22 PM, Mike Godwin at mgod...@wikimedia.org wrote: This is really an insupportable

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Jesse Plamondon-Willard
Hello, Having not read the original thread, I can only comment on this new thread. All the rhetoric I see here is from you, with high-minded phrases like people are at the heart (as if Wikimedia staff were non-people), a total lack of concrete points or examples, citing several experts in the

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Brian
* was discussed extensively On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Brian brian.min...@colorado.edu wrote: Not only that, but what the relationship between the Foundation and the community would be was extensively on this list well before the Foundation become as monolithic as it is today. On

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Marc Riddell
A linguistic analysis by several experts in the field concluded that you don't have a clue about effective group management. on 1/8/09 8:41 PM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: WMF doesn't manage its volunteer base, it keeps its hands off and lets the community sort itself

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/1/9 Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net: A linguistic analysis by several experts in the field concluded that you don't have a clue about effective group management. on 1/8/09 8:41 PM, Thomas Dalton at thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: WMF doesn't manage its volunteer base, it keeps

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Erik Moeller
2009/1/8 Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net: This is pure unsubstantiated rhetoric. There are real-life, real-time problems - serious problems - that directly involve the people occurring in the English Wikipedia for example. Where is your help? Marc, can you give examples of what kind of

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Marc Riddell
on 1/8/09 9:20 PM, Erik Moeller at e...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2009/1/8 Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net: This is pure unsubstantiated rhetoric. There are real-life, real-time problems - serious problems - that directly involve the people occurring in the English Wikipedia for example.

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Alex
Marc Riddell wrote: on 1/8/09 9:20 PM, Erik Moeller at e...@wikimedia.org wrote: 2009/1/8 Marc Riddell michaeldavi...@comcast.net: This is pure unsubstantiated rhetoric. There are real-life, real-time problems - serious problems - that directly involve the people occurring in the English

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Marc Riddell
on 1/8/09 11:02 PM, Alex at mrzmanw...@gmail.com wrote: And how is the foundation supposed to resolve this? Counsel people into changing their opinions? Ban people who appear to be suppressing criticism? Forcibly change policies? Act as proxies for people afraid of criticism? I'm

Re: [Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

2009-01-08 Thread Alex
Marc Riddell wrote: on 1/8/09 11:02 PM, Alex at mrzmanw...@gmail.com wrote: And how is the foundation supposed to resolve this? Counsel people into changing their opinions? Ban people who appear to be suppressing criticism? Forcibly change policies? Act as proxies for people afraid of