Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-18 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Juergen Fenn wrote: > Only after the last editor has been been driven away > Only after the last article written by a volunteer has been published > Only after the last vandal has been reverted by a volunteer > Then will you find that money alone cannot write an encyclopædia. > See: https://de.w

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread svetlana
On Thu, 14 Aug 2014, at 23:42, Jan-Bart de Vreede wrote: > At the Board meeting before Wikimania, Lila laid out her strategy to put in > place best practices for product development. We will communicate sooner, we > will prioritize smarter, we will test more, and we will achieve better > outcome

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Richard Farmbrough
This is all very nice "going forward", but it completely misses the salient points. 1. It is an egregious social blunder to act as Erik has done - he apologised (sort of) on the English Wiki, he should at the very least have the grace to do so on the German, 2. There are concerns about the MV s

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Martin Rulsch
The Board did not even consider to apologize for the rushed interference of WMF staff on de:MediaWiki:Common.js which caused so much trouble in the last days? No empathy for German Wikimedians who feel completely overruled and locked out from maintaining its display and implementing community conse

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Juergen Fenn
Only after the last editor has been been driven away Only after the last article written by a volunteer has been published Only after the last vandal has been reverted by a volunteer Then will you find that money alone cannot write an encyclopædia. See: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weissagung_der

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Manuel Schneider
Hi Jan-Bart, thanks for this statement. Thanks to all on the board and Lila working on this, the improvement of our website and trying to recover the trust of our community. /Manuel Am 14.08.2014 15:42, schrieb Jan-Bart de Vreede: > Some of you have asked the Board and its individual members for

[Wikimedia-l] Board statement on the Media Viewer roll out

2014-08-14 Thread Jan-Bart de Vreede
Hi all, Some of you have asked the Board and its individual members for feedback. Some of us are already in conversation with you or are planning to answer on different pages. This is our general common statement: The Board supports the decision to protect the Media Viewer roll out. Our platfo