John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
i.e. specifically asking
previously highly productive volunteers who have stopped contributing
whether they feel the increase in funds has not resulted in their work
being adequately supported?
Thanks for your great wording, John.
I belong to this category (somewhat). I stopped contributing because I felt that my work
is not adequately supported. I felt the need to develop some software. I have rather
limited free time however, and I've been in the "not highly productive
on-wiki" phase for over 3 years now.
Incidentally, one of the entities that doesn't adequately support my work is my local
chapter. It had been extremely hostile toward Wikimedia movement and after learning how it
works I had no motivation to continue working with Wikimedia projects. How poorly the
Wikimedia Foundation itself works wasn't the biggest obstacle (I found it mildly
approachable and was (and am!) a tiny bit happy with it).
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svetlana