One could argue market economy inevitably ends up in monopolies, similarly projects drawing less attention or offering no short-term benefits die of starvation. Fixing Wikidata technical weaknesses, for example, didn't draw enough attention for years.
Vito Il giorno lun 3 gen 2022 alle ore 02:22 Lars Aronsson <l...@aronsson.se> ha scritto: > On 2022-01-01 21:37, Mike Peel wrote: > > Hi Asaf, > > > > That's a good response, but I'm not sure it provides a practical way > > forward. How can volunteers bring this issue to the attention of the > > WMF leadership to get the allocation of the time of Wikimedia staff > > who can take ownership implement changes here? > > We have thousands of volunteers. And that's a problem. We wish > that we had millions of volunteers. > > Even with only thousands of volunteers, bringing more things "to > the attention" of WMF leadership would be disasterous. The > solution must lie in the opposite direction: solving issues without > having to bring them to the attention of the top leadership. > > This whole discussion reminds me of inefficiencies of the Soviet > economy. How can central planning be so inefficient? If only > Stalin or Brezhnev knew, he would put things straight, right? > How can we bring more details to the Kremlin's attention? > > The western, non-communist approach is to empower > individuals to run enterprises without bringing everything to > the attention of the top leadership. In a free market economy. > > But a market economy for us, must mean that resources are > allocated to those who are able to offer solutions that saves > resources for other volunteers. How can we do this without > paying actual money for the solutions? If your video upload > costs you dozens of hours, and I can design a solution that > saves your time, how can your saving benefit me? And after > the new solution is in place, free for all, how will anybody > know that it saves them dozens of hours? This is the big > question that we should focus on answering. > > > > -- > Lars Aronsson (l...@aronsson.se) > Linköping, Sweden > > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list -- wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe send an email to wikitech-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/postorius/lists/wikitech-l.lists.wikimedia.org/
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