I take your point Pine, but "improving communication with the community" seems to have been a WMF priority for as long as I can remember, yet there doesn't seem to have been any consistent improvement, as we can see here. A new approach and direction to how matters like this are communicated is clearly needed, because the current one doesn't seem to be working at all.
Cheers, Craig
On 4 October 2015 at 13:25, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Sigh. Decisions being made behind closed doors and then being announced much later than they should have been is a bit of a WMF pattern that I would like to see addressed. My understanding is that Lila is putting some emphasis on improved communications in Q2, and I would be interested in seeing some specific measures put in place to address the kind of situation that seems to have happened again here.
On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Craig Franklin cfranklin@halonetwork.net wrote:
You could excuse the Perth and Manila bid teams for being very angry at having wasted a lot of time and energy when the decision was apparently made behind closed doors weeks ago. Even if you think the idea of
getting
rid of the expensive bid process is a good idea (and I do), the way that this was not communicated to the community is simply abominable.
Cheers, Craig
On 4 October 2015 at 08:13, Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
Evidently the Signpost has scooped the WMF by revealing that Montreal
has
been selected for the 2017 Wikimania host city in a secret process that completed this past August. [1]
It seems like the community could have been looped into this new method before it was a done deal.
~Nathan
[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-30/News_a...
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