Hi Aaron, which of Juergen's statements do you mean?
my question is: do you have any evidence for the contrary?
best, Claudia
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From:Aaron Halfaker <aaron.halfaker(a)gmail.com>
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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(a)gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Am 04.06.2015 um 16:33 schrieb Samuel Klein <meta.sj(a)gmail.com>om>:
>
> > 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.
>
> Best,
> Jürgen.
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