Agreed as well. Anders, that is one of the most sensible posts I've seen on this list in a long time.
Adrian Raddatz On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 10:44 PM, Peter Southwood < peter.southw...@telkomsa.net> wrote: > Agreed, > Peter > > -----Original Message----- > From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On > Behalf Of Anders Wennersten > Sent: Monday, 06 March 2017 9:21 PM > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Is the Code of Conduct in force? > > We have 61000 editors that made more the 5 edits last month and 8800 > making more then 100 edits. Last election to the Board attracted 5500 > voters. These figures gives a magnitude of the numbers in the community. > > The number of active on this list are around 50-100, and normal > participations in meta discussion (except when it was for Visual editor) > are at best 100-200. > > I truly believe we should not be content to say these 100-200 are the > community or spokespersons for the community. And I admire the approach > being made by WMF in the strategy project, to actively try to reach out to > a broader audience then these 100-200 > > So I believe her has always been an issue of the dialogue between the > community and WMF, both referring to who is the community and the dialogue > in itself. But I do see that the approach being taken by WMF now and lately > does a lot to resolve this issue and and is worth both praise and support > > And I do would like to see less of "We the community" by people on this > list > > Anders > > > > Den 2017-03-06 kl. 20:07, skrev Rogol Domedonfors: > > Gerard > > > > On Mon, Mar 6, 2017 at 7:28 AM, you wrote: > > > >> For Rogol and Pine I have an additional challenge; when the WMF is to > >> support the community, is their time better spend serving quality or > >> is their time better spend discussing endless procedures that make us > >> stick in the mud as it stifles initiative? > >> > > A fallacious dichotomy, as no doubt you were well aware. We need to > > establish working and workable procedures that allow Community and > > Foundation to engage together in planning at the level of long-term > > strategy and medium-term technical roadmap so that the WMF are able to > > deliver quality products that support the mission effectively. Do you > > think we have those already? Or do you think we can do without them? > > > > "Rogol" > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > > 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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> > > ----- > No virus found in this message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 2016.0.7998 / Virus Database: 4756/14066 - Release Date: 03/06/17 > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Wikimedia-l > 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 and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
