Brian Wolff <bawo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > Almost every WMF developer attended Wikimania this year, and there was >> > quite a lot of fruitful discussion and feedback given. Somewhat >> > surprisingly (to me, it was my first Wikimania) the tone in person was >> > quite different than what you might expect from email list traffic. > Perhaps >> > that was self-selection, as the attendees at Wikimedia were the members > of >> > the community interested in constructively working on solutions.
>> > [...] >> {{cn}} > I dont know which part you want cited... but i can also confirm that > ancedotally people at wikimania were much more positive about certain > feature developments than the general attitude online. The last subordinate clause. I highly doubt that all "mem- bers of the community interested in constructively working on solutions" were at Wikimania, leaving none elsewhere, and that all Wikimania attendees are "interested in construc- tively working on solutions" given that at least some were there at their employer's direction. > What to make of this > (whether its selection bias, or if online attitudes reflect just a vocal > minority, or if people in real life are just more shy and dont want to get > in a real world fight so they tell us what we think we want to hear, or if > something else is the case. I dont know. All i know is it was surprising) > [...] As I wrote in http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/75394: | [...] | +1. In a physical meeting, there is higher bandwith, but a | lot of the payload can be pity, intimidation, "nobody leaves | before we have an agreement", etc. Additionally, at a venue like Wikimania, most of the atten- dees are not there to "work", but take it as some form of "vacation", so there isn't much incentive to take a stand about something like Media Viewer, especially as in the end it is not up for discussion anyhow, so why bother? Tim _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l