While we are on the subject of the meaning of words, to me a road map is a map of the road
system. Something we used before we had talking GPS to navigate to unfamiliar places when
travelling by car.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Gerard
Meijssen
Sent: Saturday, 11 February 2017 2:55 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [discovery] Interactive Team putting work on pause
Hoi,
Rogol... the past... whose past? When you argue that we have to learn from the past, it is
good to accept current polities of a project as an argument but such an argument has to
convince us all.
I have experience and I dispair. I find that policies that are external to me should be
accepted by me because they are said to be "universal". I am not convinced by
this argument at all. If you cannot present your arguments for our mutual setting you
fail, your arguments fail.
When you use a proverb, it is dandy but by the same token, I am not a collaborator because
that would-be make me a Nazi (that is my cultural heritage).
My question to you is plain. Are you willing to argue your case as I am willing to argue
mine? Are you willing to accept that there is more than only Wikipedia and only English?
Are you happy to validate your arguments?
Thanks,
GerardM
Op za 11 feb. 2017 om 11:05 schreef Rogol Domedonfors <domedonfors(a)gmail.com
> Anna,
> > Sometimes I wonder if hope isn’t at the base of it all. Perhaps hope
> > is necessary but certainly not sufficient for it all to transpire.
> > Hope is
> not
> > a strategy. But maybe it's a foundation.
>
> Certainly, but there is an old saying about "the triumph of hope over
> experience". The general tenor of your comments suggest that you are
> less interested in learning from the past as you are planning for the
> future. I merely suggest that the two go hand in hand.
> > [stuff]]
> > I don't have time to investigate this statement and work to piece
> together
> > what happened, and since I don't have that time, I will not comment
> > in
> any
> > way on this particular instance.
>
> That is your decision, but it means that you will learn nothing from it.
> > Generally, I am thinking about community service training across the
> > organization. I would love your help with that. I can do little
> > about the past. I can address the future. To properly address the
> > future, ad hoc
> and
> > particular solution sets won't suffice. We'll need coherent and
> > general solution sets, with enough particulars to keep the solution set honest.
>
> I am not sure what you mean by "community service" here. In the UK,
> it is a form of punishment given to young offenders for anti-social
> behaviour. I assume you mean something different?
> > I didn’t say that we didn’t have a Roadmap. I said that I did not know.
>
>
> > > and extraordinarily unusual that a person at your level in the
> > > organisation should not know of its existence and be able to
> > > confirm at least whether or not it exists.
>
>
> > Agreed.
>
> > One caveat: I am a Director in Talent
and Culture. Please allow me
> > to explain. You may have noticed we’ve had some talent and culture
> challenges
> > as of late. I’m sure you can imagine how those challenges could keep
> > me (one of two senior leaders in a department of 10, 5 of whom are
> > solely dedicated to recruiting and 1 dedicated solely to employee
> > benefits), relatively busy. Although I agree with you in principle,
> > I’m just asking you to see how under those circumstances it could
> > make sense that a Director in T&C might not be up to date on what is
> > going on relative to Product Roadmaps.
>
> > However, I am here now.
>
>
> > > You must be aware that your answer suggests at a bare minimum the
> > > possibility that you, as an officer of the WMF, are evading the
> question.
> >
>
> > That possibility genuinely never
occurred to me. Evading the
> > question? Quite the contrary, Rogol. I have answered in the most
> > exposing and real way possible. I have said, "I don’t know", on a
> > public mailing list. Talk about a total lack of spin! I think that
> > is in the Wharton-Business-School
> > <http://executiveeducation.wharton.upenn.edu/for-individuals
> > ?gclid=CMGp9YTnhtICFURqfgod_AYI_g&slx=NAM_BRAND&ef_id=WFbx
> > 6wAAAN1GRt7g:20170211003858:s>-what-not-to-do
> > manual... admit that you don't know something in public.
>
> The underlying quesrion, as was sure you would have recognised, is not
> "Do you Anna Stillwell happen to know whether or not the WMF has a
> technical roadmap ..." but "Does the WMF have a technical roadmap and
> if so please will the WMF publish it." Perhaps I failed to make that
> clear, and you were assuming I was asking a more personally specific
> but significantly less useful version. My long-standing question, then, remains
unanswered:
> *Does the WMF have a technical roadmap and
if so please will the WMF
> publish it.*
> > If I may be so bold, it seems that your interpretation of my words
> > lacks even basic faith. It seems to be the penultimate worst
> > possible interpretation (the worst being lying, the second... evading).
>
> I can only go by what I see as a pesistent refusal to address this
> issue over many weeks by multiple members of the WMF staff.
> > But your nearly automatic interpretation may point to a deeper
> > issue. I hear you saying that you don't take me at my word. That you
> > may not take
> us
> > at our word. And I imagine that we have done some things to earn
> > your distrust. I hear you.
>
> > But I assure you that I am telling you
the truth now: I do not know.
>
> Do you propose to take any steps to find out? If you do, please will
> you let the community know?
> > Ok. How do you pronounce your fictitious name? I asked around, “Hey,
> > how
> do
> > you pronounce Rogol’s fictitious name”? Everyone pronounced it
> differently.
> > Some had a hard g. Some had a soft one. Some placed emphasis on the
> > first syllable. Some on the second.
>
> > I couldn’t stop laughing. I said to
them, “But he’s made up…. how
> > can you be *so sure*?”
>
> Philippe Beaudette pronounced it acceptably it in the July 2015
> Metrics Meeting, see, or rather listen to,
>
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXWNGEht9lU&feature=youtu.be
> "Rogol"
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