On 29 April 2013 09:33, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
It's very clear (to me) that the WMF grants system is not designed to make Wikimedia entities grow, but only to reinforce those which are already strong enough, keeping them at the same level they're at.
It's not clear this was a design criterion. It was, however, obvious that this was what would occur. When the chapters screamed blue murder about it on internal-l, Sue and Erik decided they didn't like the tone and weren't going to listen any more.
Unfortunately, this doesn't make an actual problem go away.
- d.