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 (lars@aronsson.se)
   Linköping, Sweden

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