There are certain things that affect many volunteers directly. A slightly off-topic example: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T59608#1637250
The fact that: > "the WMF education team has no engineering resources" ...affects volunteers. Sincerely, Yury Bulka (Wikimedia Ukraine) Craig Franklin <cfrank...@halonetwork.net> writes: > Yaroslav, > > You're correct in that most volunteers don't care directly. The problem is > that a lot of the BoT's recent difficulties have crossed the line from > "angry encyclopedia people venting on a mailing list" to "serious and > negative attention from the mainstream press". If there is too much of the > latter, it may create a perception amongst the general public than even if > Wikipedia is a useful resource, that it is incompetent with handling > money. As a result, donations dry up, and difficult and unpleasant choices > have to be made around budget. > > So yes, this sort of thing can influence rank and file editors most > seriously, albeit indirectly. > > Cheers, > Craig > > > On 19 February 2016 at 07:52, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > >> >> To be honest, most volunteers do not care. We understand of course that if >> things would go really wrong, for example, servers stop running, or money >> runs out and ads are introduced, or English Wikipedia admins continue >> resigning/being desysopped without proper replacement, so that we have ten >> active admins, then we are in serious trouble. But as far as things are >> running quasi-normal, we just continue. I was making 50 to 100 edits per >> day five years ago, I am making 50 to 100 edits per day now, I will >> probably still be making 50 to 100 edits per day in five years, unless I >> die or leave because of a serious demotivation - and this demotivation is >> unlikely to be related to WMF. I think staff are way more vulnerable to all >> kinds of events. >> > _______________________________________________ > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>
