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(a)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(a)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(a)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_…
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