Seeing the partner of the WMF ED going out of his way
actively to run
about on multiple public channels to support and promote
Wikipediocracy, a website owned by Gregory Kohs and which is used by
him to lobby his obsessive anti-Wikimedia yellow journalism, is
increasingly disturbing and worrying.
You can just call me Wil. :)
It would have been great had Wil taken the advice from
the most
experienced long term Wikimedia volunteers and re-focused for a month
or two on gaining practical experience at volunteering on Wikimedia
projects, and in turn gaining the trust of fellow volunteers, before
attempting to single-handedly attempt to take a lead on community
politics by using the name of his parter as his calling card. Were he
writing on Wikipediocracy using the benefit of that experience, then
this would feel rather less like Wil taking his views from that site
and immediately promoting them on Wikimedia channels.
I have been working on that practical experience. But people keep
replying to this thread, so I keep coming back to provide what answers
I can.
Again, Fae, I really am not interested in politics. I will promote
views that I think are worth promoting anywhere I people seem
interested in them. If you aren't interested, please feel free to
ignore me. I've been hearing from quite a lot of people who are.
Lila Tretikov will need to work extremely hard with
the (productive)
volunteer community to gain confidence in her personal judgement when
it comes to holding the future strategy for the Wikimedia Community
and remove the bad taste this political gaming is leaving behind.
Along with the inevitable suspicion that this has been a
not-very-covert ploy by Lila to jumpstart re-engineering our
community.
Hmmm. That's a new one to me. :)
Do any WMF Trustees have an opinion about these
shenanigans by Wil, or
even better, Lila?
I wouldn't know about that.
Wil - take a break away from the keyboard, and seek
some sensible
advice before going yet further along the public path you are
committing yourself and Lila to. At this point, I find it had to
imagine any scenario where your actions this week turn out to have
been a clever and wise strategy for Wikimedia.
Wikimedia can take care of its own strategy, as far as I'm concerned.
I appreciate the advice about the keyboard. And this conversation is
getting pretty repetitive, isn't it?
Thanks.
,Wil