Philippe Beaudette wrote:
On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 11:06 AM, MZMcBride
<z(a)mzmcbride.com> wrote:
Sue Gardner wrote:
Ah, Sarah, I don't think that's
particularly fair. Bear in mind we've
just published a strategic plan that 1,000+ Wikimedians helped create.
I'm not denying that some Wikimedians may feel alienated from the
Wikimedia Foundation: I'm sure it is true for some. But "something in
which we have no input" is, IMO, not a fair characterization.
This is an interesting comment given who actually authored the strategic
plan. It's my understanding that several people (Eugene, you, Erik, and
others) wrote different parts of the report, which were then compiled by
people from Bridgespan. Is that accurate?
Is there a record of who wrote which parts of the report? It would be
particularly interesting to see how much of it came from volunteers.
She didn't say they sat down and banged out the plan on their IBM
Selectric. She said they helped create it. That's entirely accurate.
It
grew from the work of the task forces, research
around the proposals,
research in general... all of those done by volunteers. While the final
wording may have been "smithed" by a relatively smaller set of people,
the
first attempt was actually to have community
members do that as well. It
didn't work well - either because it's a task that was poorly facilitated
(and if so, I'm to blame), or a task that was poorly defined, or simply a
task that the people who were there weren't interested in doing (and as
volunteers, that's their right and privilege), the writing had to be
assigned to a number of people.
I dislike this posts like this one, which (at least from one perspective)
engage in a game of rhetorical "gotcha".
So... that's a no? There's no record of who wrote what? I think people in
the community are interested to know how much of the strategic plan came
from various stakeholders, both the ideas and the actual pieces of the
report. If you feel that it's unfair to ask for attribution, I guess we'll
just have to agree to disagree.
MZMcBride
I don't think I actually answered that part of the question, because - as I
told you privately - I was gone from the project long before then. I
simply don't know.
But this is further rhetorical "gotcha" - you took my response to one part
of your post and tried to twist it to be a non-answer to the other part of
your post.