I expect this would be an interesting meeting if people are interested in
participating, and I hope that we would brainstorm some ideas about how we
want to move forward on all of these questions and others if we have time.
Hi Pine,
I think it would be much more productive to think about these kinds of
issues (and indeed those that Jane and Anders have brought up) inside a
Wikimedia movement strategic planning process, rather than trying to set up
a separate one (even more so, a separate one with an implicit assumption of
creating a project fork, which I think is what you're proposing).
I think your suggested solution is actually at a different scale to the
problem you're having. I can certainly see there are upset people. But I
think the way to move things forward would be to have more conversation
about "How quickly do technical developments from WMF need to go?" and
"How
can we get a smoother relationship between WMF product developers and
long-term editors?". I think those are much more sensible conversations to
have, rather than either "Should MediaViewer be on or off by default?"
(that's been answered) or "How can I replace the Wikimedia Foundation with
something I like more?" (which is unlikely to achieve very much).
Regards,
Chris