Hi Yaroslav and others,
I'm sorry that we are going through these current events.
As a WLM organizer, I feel the pain of organizing a contest,
encouraging people to participate, but then seeing or
imagining their disappointment. The one thing that gives the
most motivation to me is to see people succeed in doing the
upload, not to see them fail. From what I read at
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Deletion_requests/Files_of_User:Лавров95_2#Comment_from_the_WLM_organizers
I also see some of the difficulties that the Commons community
are facing. This is not a pleasant situation for anyone. We
are all in this for helping people share in the sum of all
knowledge. At the moment, we are distracted.
We are seeing a failure of potentially more than one part
of our system. As a team of people working towards the same
goal, we should investigate what has happened from the
beginning to the end, understand what has gone wrong and where
(no blaming of each other, simply understanding), and come up
with processes for fixing the broken parts. This will help us
not have to visit a similar problem again and move forward
together and more efficiently.
I will reach out to some of you involved in this discussion
off-list to start a (postmortem) discussion. In the mean time,
I ask all of you to consider the other side and treat each
other with humility, trust, and respect.
Best,
Leila