On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 3:42 AM, SarahSV <sarahsv.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> That was literally the first time we felt we were being listened to. There > was one point when Flow was introduced – and I have been trying to find > this diff but can't – where there was something on the talk page that > amounted to "if you agree with us that x and y, then you're welcome to join > the discussion." > > So from the start, it felt as though staffers had ruled out the community > as people who might know something about what tools are needed to > collaborate on an article (which is not the same as chatting). People who > had been doing something for years were not regarded as experts in that > thing by the Foundation. > > We would say "we need pages," and they would explain why we didn't. We > would say "we need archives," and they would explain why good search was a > better idea. We would say "there's too much white space," and they would > explain that people like white space. And so on. I must say, what Sarah says here rather matches my recollection. Andreas _______________________________________________ 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>
