On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 11:26 AM, Romaine Wiki romaine.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
It is time for a new strategic priority: closing the Community Gap. That is the gap between WMF and the local communities worldwide. It is not new, it exists for many years already. (It resulted also in the drama of the situation around the Mediaviewer in 2014, the drama with the Visual Editor in 2013, etc. in what WMF didn't sense well the community.) (Maybe the gap is less between WMF and the English speaking part of the world, but the world is larger. We have many people around the world who are speak a different language. WMF is not sensing the worldwide community well enough.) Finally we should do more about this Community Gap.
I think the gap is just as big in the English-speaking world, and that if asked (that kind of says something, I think) a lot of people would finger it as a priority—if nothing else, the content of traffic on this list would appear to back that up.
Austin