While I agree that the article is overly negative (likely because of the individual experience), I think it still points to an important problem. I don't perceive this article as really problematic in terms of image. Maybe naively, I imagine that people will not stop donating because the community is not ideal.
pundit
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Kerry Raymond kerry.raymond@gmail.com wrote:
There’s a saying that everyone likes to eat sausages but nobody likes to know how they are made. It is not good to have negative publicity like that during the annual donation campaign (irrespective of the motivations of the journalist and/or the rights/wrongs of the issue being reported, neither of which I intend to debate here). As a donation-funded organisation, public perception matters a lot.
Kerry
*From:* Jonathan Morgan [mailto:jmorgan@wikimedia.org] *Sent:* Saturday, 13 December 2014 6:43 AM *To:* Research into Wikimedia content and communities *Cc:* Kerry Raymond *Subject:* Re: [Wiki-research-l] commentary on Wikipedia's community behaviour (Aaron gets a quote)
I mostly agree. On one hand, it's always nice to see a detailed description of how wiki-sausage gets made in a major venue. On the other, this journalist clearly has a personal axe to grind, and used his bully pulpit to grind it in public.
- J
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
1000th addition to the inconsequential rant genre.
Nemo
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