Hi Dariusz
in recent years WMF has emphasized the concepts of diversity and equity
that are excellent and desirable but should not forget that Wikipedia
today is what it is thanks to a community that for over 18 years has
supported these projects and that cannot be forgotten from today to
tomorrow.
Many recommendations forget this point and forget that Wikimedia
projects stand on their feet thanks to this experienced group.
Participating in wikimedia projects is done on a voluntary basis, there
are many excellent projects to work with that are out of the wikiverse.
Giving to these volunteers the feeling of not being accepted because
they are male, western, middle-aged and with a good economic position
will only speed up this process.
Kind regards
On 24/08/2019 23:40, Dariusz Jemielniak wrote:
Well, "the intention of building an encyclopedia
based on a neutral point of view achieved by verifiable information attributed to reliable
independent sources and disseminated under a free licence" is close to many of us (me
including). I think it is quite unlikely that recommendations challenging every single
part of that intent, in the understanding of the majority of our community, will go
through.
It is my honest belief that the WMF Board of Trustees does not intend to radically reduce
the number of volunteers involved.
In any case, I suggest we wait and see how the recommendations shape up anyhow.
best,
dj
On Sat, Aug 24, 2019 at 5:22 PM Jeff Hawke
<geoffey.hawke@gmail.com<mailto:geoffey.hawke@gmail.com>> wrote:
Dariusz
It seems very likely that the majority of the 60,000 contributors you mention are there
with the intention of building an encyclopaedia based on a neutral point of view achieved
by verifiable information attributed to reliable independent sources and disseminated
under a free licence. Since there are recommendations that would challenge every single
part of that intent, it seems reasonable to assume that some non-trivial proportion of the
volunteer workforce will not wish to continue to participate in a project that has so
dramatically changed its entire raison d'etre.
Jeff
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* Dariusz Jemielniak, Maciej Wilamowski (2017) Cultural Diversity of Quality of
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Wikipedias<http://crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/cultures%20of%20wikipedias.pdf>
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 68: 10. 2460–2470.
* Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Wikimedia Movement Governance: The Limits of
A-Hierarchical
Organization<http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/wikimedia_governance.pdf>
Journal of Organizational Change Management 29: 3. 361-378.
* Dariusz Jemielniak, Eduard Aibar (2016) Bridging the Gap Between Wikipedia and
Academia<http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/bridging.pdf> Journal of the
Association for Information Science and Technology 67: 7. 1773-1776.
* Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Breaking the Glass Ceiling on
Wikipedia<http://www.crow.kozminski.edu.pl/papers/glass-ceiling.pdf> Feminist Review
113: 1. 103-108.
* Tadeusz Chełkowski, Peter Gloor, Dariusz Jemielniak (2016) Inequalities in Open
Source Software Development: Analysis of Contributor’s Commits in Apache Software
Foundation
Projects<http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/asset?id=10.1371%2Fjou…DF>,
PLoS ONE 11: 4. e0152976.
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