That feels about right for most of the time. Cheers, Peter -----Original Message----- From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-boun...@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Jane Darnell Sent: 25 July 2018 09:29 To: Wikimedia Mailing List Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy: First round of Working Group members
Hmm. Yes and no. Yes the May 2017 conference suffered from some interesting selection bias, but no the people there were not all brainwashed into forgetting their "wildness". We are all still wild wild Wikipedians at heart, speaking for the 2006 cohort in its entirety. I really doubt whether the WMF is trying to shove us all in a direction of their choosing. I think that we are in fact split down the middle into parties that believe "some languages are better than others" and "let's save all existing languages on the planet, including all of their fonts ever used on- and offline". Then there is a huge discrepancy in workflow for these people and the folks who work in just one language and never think of language as a movement topic at all. Among this monolingual crowd (many of whom do not subscribe to any mailing list or other communication outlets) are the overlapping groups between the "field workers" and the "library workers". The field workers tend to operate more by a "drive-by" methodology, and the "library workers" tend to operate more by a "step-by-step" methodology. I respectfully submit that we have all dabbled in all of these worlds and therefore we all have enough common sense to shout "Whoa!" if something really really wrong gets proposed. But in the past I have felt quite strongly that something was really really wrong, but it turned out it was just a factor of me being unaware of workflow difficulties experienced by others. So e.g. personally I was against the idea of "protected pages" but have come around to seeing they are useful - even on Wikidata. On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 10:12 PM, Anders Wennersten < m...@anderswennersten.se> wrote: > As I see it the strategy process is run for the functionaries in the > movement and by them. People with focus on contributing to the projects are > not involved, when volunteers is mentioned it is mostly people running > worskhops for beginners etc, a kind of semi functionaries, not the hard > core contributes. > > This could be a good thing and foster a new set of moment leaders, fully > in agreement with goals and strategy. It could also be seen as a weakness, > as we do not recognize the more "wild" (but creative)y culture in our > communities and only have the "nice" and obedient culture being accepted. > > Facts > > The vision was really created in Wikiconf 2017 by functionaries > > The way forward was defined by Wikiconf 2017 by functionaries > > The set up of work groups was from the beginning set up to include (only) > functionaries (time requirement, and first it was also talked of candidates > should be endorsed by local chapters). And the actual selection was not > done transparent as is the culture of the communities but by "boss" > selection (I only feel the movement is starting to resemble a big company, > not the vibrant communities) > > Anders > > > > Den 2018-07-24 kl. 21:29, skrev Yaroslav Blanter: > >> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:16 PM, David Cuenca Tudela <dacu...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> I do not know what really happened but if I listen to what has been said >> here and earlier on similar occasions, my conclusion is that for the >> Strategy Team we - volunteers who are working on the projects but are not >> associated with the chapters, do not show up at Wikimania, do not attend >> real-life tutorials organized by WMF - just do not exist. >> >> If this is the case, this is a serious gap to be bridged. So far I have >> net >> see even an acknowledgement of its existence. >> >> Cheers >> Yaroslav >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik >> i/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/wik > i/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> --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com _______________________________________________ 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>
