Risker, regarding "why are all of these proposals so focused on people who click the edit button": because people who click the edit button on Wikipedia are the people who make this thing our readers love, the people responsible for the rivers of gold flowing into the WMF's bank account.
It's going to be hard enough (but doable) designing an editor membership structure that is safe from gaming by interest groups. If you can design a way to include readers in the membership, that is proofed against gaming, great, put it forward. I can't think of one.
The people who make this thing should be overseeing it, not the people who keep the servers running.
Anthony Cole
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 11:46 AM, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
More focused but where I was trying to go. Thank you.
Perhaps two C level positions, Chief Editor Officer to liase and advocate there, and Chief Reader Officer to research and liase and advocate there, too.
Q: How can we identify a Reader representative we could put on the Board?
George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 24, 2016, at 7:34 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
Out of curiosity, why are all of these proposals so focused on people who click the edit button. The overwhelming percentage of our users (half a billion a month, if I recall correctly) never click that button. The
vast
majority of our donors never click that button. The massive majority of active and very active editors don't participate in Board selection activities. I won't say that the editing community is unimportant - in
fact
I believe it is extremely important - but every proposal that is coming forward seems exclusively focused on "empowering" a small percentage of
the
editing group over all other stakeholders. I'd like to see some suggestions that are more balanced.
Risker
On 24 February 2016 at 22:27, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On Feb 24, 2016, at 7:01 PM, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
George, the WMF, particularly under the Sue/Erik regime - but as best
as
I
can tell from its very beginning - has had a propensity to privilege
its
view of what's best over the community's view. Superprotect. Visual
editor.
When the community has pushed back at WMF behaviour that suits the WMF, that the WMF thinks helps them in their mission, the WMF has
historically
just gone ahead and ignored what the community sees as being in the encyclopaedia's best interest. This bunch of tech geeks and silicon
valley
entrepreneurs holds the whip hand in this relationship. It really
should
be
the other way round. Denny's model; Sarah's model. I don't really care.
But
this tail-wagging-dog thing is just not right.
There are several ways to look at this. One includes the view that the Foundation and Board exist to protect and encourage the Movement, not
just
the loudest editor communities. And that there are wider issues for the Movement, including things for users, things keeping users from editing, and things pushing people out of active editing that the Board and Foundation rightly should be paying a lot of attention to.
There are both valid issues the editor community has objected to, and things the editor community (enwiki at least) is grossly dysfunctional about that the Board and Foundation must still focus on. Both
separation
for perspective and feedback and relationship care are needed.
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