AGK wrote:

On 6 Jun 2010, at 22:54, Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki@gmail.com wrote:

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Let's start a meta page where people can register thoughts/complaints/grievances/joy/sorry to WMF staff. If it is a serious concern, the staff can respond after someone consults with them and receive either a you can handle it or I can handle it response.

I always thought that the mailing lists filled this role, albeit off- wiki and in a less rigid way.

Sorry, but I think both implementations above fail in one respect in terms of what I was proposing. My idea was that there would be a mechanism where an implicit trust between the community experts and the foundation ( == staff and trustees - as long as we are going to sadly progress on the course of professionalizing even the board of trustees) would be gradually engendered.

There is the aspect of signal to noise ratio that would be adequately addressed by an arrangement where the foundation actors themselves were the ones recruiting who they thought could provide insightful comments on the concerns and realities of the various communities.

Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen