Hi Aaron, which of Juergen's statements do you mean?
my question is: do you have any evidence for the contrary?
best, Claudia
---------- Original Message ----------- From:Aaron Halfaker aaron.halfaker@gmail.com To:Research into Wikimedia content and communities <wiki-research- l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent:Thu, 4 Jun 2015 09:55:02 -0500 Subject:Re: [Wiki-research-l] Community health (retitled thread)
Hi Juergen, That's an interesting hypothesis. Do you have any evidence to support it?
On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Juergen Fenn jfenn@gmx.net wrote:
Am 04.06.2015 um 16:33 schrieb Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com:
Context: reduced traffic on wikimedia-l. Is this a sign of poor community health?
Reduced traffic on Wikimedia-l is mostly due to list moderation. All critical content has been filtered for a while. I became aware of it only recently when I posted a critical remark which was rejected.
The Foundation has not only introduced Superprotect and Superban, it
has
also got a firm grip on all communication channels whatsoever. This will intensify as, we have just learned, new staff will be hired for communication. The WMF no longer needs the community, it does all the traffic itself (staff, chapters, etc.).
Of course this shift from crowdsourcing to staff has to be paid for, hence the interest in an ever-increasing flow of donations and hence the
interest
in the Alexa ranking of Wikipedia.
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