So Signpost discovered what is Something. (I didn't follow all the threads, but I suppose it's been written in some of them.)
From my perspective and according to some anecdotal data I have, I would suggest WMF staff and C-level management to start talking with each other. I can confirm that at least in one case it turned out that fears had no basis in reality. But I was a bit surprised that I was the best informed person inside of the triangle. On Jan 3, 2016 09:41, "Milos Rancic" <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > We should start talking about Something. > > Something is the raising issue of our movement. Its properties are not > yet known, but all of us feel the consequences of Something. > > To tackle the problem, we should define it, first. Yes, we know it's > called Something, but besides the name, we know just a little bit > more. So, I ask you to help me define Something. Crowdsourcing is the > term defined thanks to our movement and I am sure we are capable to do > so. All of us have a little piece of knowledge about Something and we > could compile those pieces to create a clear picture. > > My knowledge about Something is very obscure. From occasional > discussions with some of WMF employees, I know that "Something is > wrong". I am quite serious about that. I got impression that employees > are not content with the Board decisions during the recent years. > However, I couldn't define quite well the matter of that discontent. > > I am not able to understand what's the difference between the Time of > Something (ToS, not to be confused with TOS, Star Trek, The Original > Series) and the Time before Something (TbS, not to be confused with > tbs, ISO 639-3 code for Tanguat language). > > I don't see any particular difference, except I think Board is not > making mistakes it made previously. (To be fair, it's not that big > achievement, as "mistakes" are not a final set.) > > What I do see are the consequences of Something: Something creates > particular dynamics inside of the core of our movement and we feel the > consequences of that dynamics. > > However, I am living in a countryside of Wikimedia movement, far away > from our capital, Bay Area. Thus, I admit I am not just not that well > informed, but I am also probably not that capable to understand the > basic concepts of Something. > > But I am sure there are some of you capable to fathom the deep mystery > of Something. > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
