Thank you Ido and +1 to your message. I would also +1 to Yaroslav's message, but I want to note, that though most volunteers would not care about smth (seemingly) far away like WMF and its troubles, they WOULD care about backlogs of bugs that are piling up, lack of strategic approach to high-priority things like the Education extension etc. And some volunteers (no doubt) are really upset by repeated cycles of bad press we are getting. Unnecessarily...
Best regards, antanana Board Member of WMUA 2016-02-18 23:52 GMT+02:00 Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru>: > On 2016-02-18 21:20, Leila Zia wrote: > >> Hi Dariusz, >> >> I want to share with you the following relatively scattered thoughts and >> leave it to you to decide how to continue engaging with us. :-) I hope you >> find them helpful: >> >> * BoT has been too silent, given the state of matters. I'm much more >> worried about our volunteers when I say this, than the WMF's staff (which >> I'm one of). >> > > 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. > > > * Because of the lack of clear communications by the BoT, I'm uncertain >> whether there is an acknowledgement by the BoT about the issues we are >> facing. What can assure me at the moment is to see a list of items the BoT >> sees as problematic, and a plan for addressing them, and a schedule for >> when we should expect seeing them addressed. (Half-jokingly: maybe we need >> a phabrictor board for the BoT to track specific tasks that can be shared >> publicly and their prioritization). >> >> > This is a cool idea. It is a pity it has zero chances to be realized. > > Cheers > Yaroslav > > > _______________________________________________ > 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>
