"Peter Southwood" <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net> wrote:
You are quite correct, we cannot force the board to
respond. However if they don't we are free to vote with our
feet - or not. The fundamental rule of crowdsourcing is 'do
not alienate your crowd'. They tread a delicate line,
whatever they do is going to annoy somebody.
[…]
By mid-December, they had crowdsourced USD 18.000.000 in
this campaign, so they seem to be on the right track. If
volunteer editors would leave in a significant number, the
effect would be the same that we have seen for MediaWiki
development: "We need to raise /more/ money to employ some-
one to edit and update articles. You want to keep Wikipedia
alive, don't you?"
All threats against the board or WMF in general are power-
less unless there is a viable alternative to Wikipedia for
volunteers that is /better/; at the moment there is not even
a clone that provides just the same data.
Tim