MZMcBride -- We are a little bit in the tricky situation because our strategy has not been updated yet. Allocation should follow strategic priorities and it is the strategy that helps answer this question. On a more operational scale, resources tend go to where the users are or where the opportunity is. When they go to opportunity, it is towards verifying hypothesis that it would yield results.
I am thinking through this now and will post more thoughts as we begin planning for the strategy update. L On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 6:24 PM, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Lila Tretikov wrote: > >I wanted to give you an update on my first three weeks of Wikimedia > >immersion -- this will also go on the blog. As you probably noticed, my > >leadership approach is rooted in observation and focused discussions -- > >this means I watch and listen more than I talk. But I expect that you are > >probably curious about what I have observed and learned so far, and to > >know a little more about who I am. > > > > [...] > > Thank you for this write-up. It was nice to read. :-) > > >Your recommendations on areas you see as priorities for development > >(while keeping in mind that not everything can be a priority at > >once!); [...] > > I think this continues to be a huge pain point. Developer resources are > scarce and expensive and there's often a feeling that the latest Wikimedia > Foundation initiatives trump all other worthwhile projects. I think we > need to find a better way to more fairly allocate resources. > > As a concrete example, there continue to be dozens of Wikimedia Foundation > developers and other staff specifically focused on the English Wikipedia > and sometimes Wikimedia Commons, while the other sister projects such as > Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikisource continue to receive almost no direct > attention. (Over the past few years, even the term "sister projects" has > become mildly insulting. These projects are more accurately the red-headed > stepchild projects.) This won't happen quickly, but we must make it a goal > to do better in this area. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
