On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:48:58 +0200, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 16:17, Theo10011 de10011@gmail.com wrote:
My main point (although I *did* make it clear), was that volunteer-work is what this movement is built on. Tell me a single content project that
was
built by paid employees? If we abandon our identity, then how would we still be volunteer-driven and open. I can argue volunteers do inherently
better
work than paid staff, because they believe in what they do and are passionate about it. It is however, just a job for most people who get paid to do the same. You can not pay someone to care, is what my point was.
Theo, volunteers do not care about things which require to be accurate. Besides that, more and more volunteer positions were replaced by paid staff, beginning with Brion. And that's not the problem of principle, but the problem of having job done.
Actually, a precise statement would be SOME volunteers do not care. Or even MANY volunteers do not care. I always had difficulties, at least when I was still active on Russian Wikipedia, but I believe this is the issue on all projects, to explain that some things just need to be done DOES NOT MATTER WHAT. And these things need to be done properly. And if nobody was doing them I felt myself personally responsible for doing this stupid, uninteresting, dull but necessary staff, and was obliged to hear arguments about the wiki way, working for pleasure, and advises of not doing things if I do not find them interesting enough. I must say this was a very frustrating experience. But I hope I am not the only one.
Cheers Yaroslav