Oh what a day! Which began when perforce a visitor from afar began to exhort us to look far afield, to travel and visit learn brand new things, uncover, elicit stories of users far from our homes! And so we set out, bravely to roam: perhaps ten full blocks! We found creatures strange! They all spoke English! The stories exchanged recalled those of family: Mom, Dad, and friends -- it's true, then, we _are_ all the same in the end!
Such relief not to grapple with projects baroque, languages strange, or features "they" wrote. In tune with this sentiment let's celebrate dominance! Hush the less pertinent -- let's not mention "those" continents. "Hurray," we all cheer: "Our wiki is strong!" Our projects are weak, but shush, sing along: our rivals are fierce, but yet we prevailed; it must be because our PHP scaled! Ignore those naysayers who laugh at our UX And claims by our editors that it obstructs: separate pages for talk, no friends and no chat -- no Serious Software has all of that! Well, enough -- we're not free to change even fonts without acres of missives to agony aunts: let's move next to strategy, where with speeches prolonged new hires will tell us what we got wrong. Three commands we were given: the first, to be punctual. By fiat we've banished the correct but eventual; from now on our code is timely _and_ functional. Our prior disasters are vanished by ritual. The second was novel: exhorted to innovate! Our change-fearing userbase I'm sure will reciprocate. Perhaps we can grow new crops of good editors. New users, new processes, throw off our fetters. Perhaps we need spaces where we can be bold -- it's hard else to see how to do what we're told. The last was to integrate, engage with community; never mind our tall silos and product disunity: we can have orphaned features conflicted teams, clashing visions -- "What's key is to synergize!" says our stratcom tactician. Community discourse will fix all that ails us: except for those times when instead they've assailed us. Lift a glass to the mission! We'll muddle through fine. We all love each other, but this day's been a grind. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
