On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 10:32 AM, Strainu <strain...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2017-06-23 23:48 GMT+03:00 Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com>: > > Could you elaborate on the benefits of this timetable change for people > who > > are not involved with affiliates? > > > > Starting from this assumption, and considering the fact that even the > most active wikimedians (not involved in a chapter) have real life > commitments that do not allow them to follow this process carefully, > it is obvious that the main responsibility of the team that > coordinates the process should have been outreach. In my particular > geographic area, Track B contributors were engaged with only 2 weeks > prior to the end of the last cycle, which is hardly enough time to > read, understand, and think about the vast quantity of material > available in the strategy process. > > > I am an active Wikimedia not involved in a Chapter. In Round 1, I was pretty active, and in the Russian Wikivoyage we collected quite some feedback and translated it into English. It was essentially ignored. None of us participated in Round 2 since we thought it is a waste of time. Round 2 was organized in the same way as Round 1 (many discussions opened i n different places, meaning there is no possibility to really discuss anything, merely to leave one's opinion). I have corresponding pages on 3 projects on my watchlists (with is 15 pages, and this is a lot), but I have not seen in these discussions anything new not said before in Round 1. May be smth useful would come out from other tracks, but I am not really looking forward to Track B Round 3 either. I believe it is completely failed, and individual contributors did not have a chance to form a considated opinion. The message for me is essentially: If you want to be heard, find a chapter or a thematic organization first. I hope the next process will be organized differently in 10 years from now. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ 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>
