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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