(...) The Wikimedia Foundation is too much de-attached from the community.
This is so true, Romaine! Especially the new staffer who never edited wikipedia before becoming staffer.
Of course there is also wmf staff closely involved in the community and doing a great job. It is always a pleasure to do stuff together with them! Really.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 01:59:46 +0200 From: romaine.wiki@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising
I think you describe the essence of the problem: there is a big gap between the community and the Wikimedia Foundation.
I have a long list of problems from the past years that all seem to originate in this basic problem. The Wikimedia Foundation is too much de-attached from the community.
At the same time I notice that since last year, Lila is trying to improve this situation, but there is a very very long way to go to move the Wikimedia Foundation away from the dark side of the moon. (To prevent generalisation: I know also a lot of staff in WMF that are closely involved in the community and doing a great job in being attached with the community.)
Romaine
2015-08-21 22:22 GMT+02:00 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
From my perspective, this strikes me as part of the reason why national organisations are well suited to running the Wikimedia fundraising campaigns rather than a global organisation: if WMIT was organising both WLM and the national fundraising campaign, then this conflict wouldn't have arisen / could have been resolved locally.
Thanks, Mike
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