Brian Wolff <bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Almost
every WMF developer attended Wikimania this year, and there was
> quite a lot of fruitful discussion and feedback given. Somewhat
> surprisingly (to me, it was my first Wikimania) the tone in person was
> quite different than what you might expect from email list traffic.
Perhaps
> that was self-selection, as the attendees at
Wikimedia were the members
of
> > the community interested in constructively working on solutions.
> > [...]
> {{cn}}
I dont know which part you want cited... but i can
also confirm that
ancedotally people at wikimania were much more positive about certain
feature developments than the general attitude online.
The last subordinate clause. I highly doubt that all "mem-
bers of the community interested in constructively working
on solutions" were at Wikimania, leaving none elsewhere, and
that all Wikimania attendees are "interested in construc-
tively working on solutions" given that at least some were
there at their employer's direction.
What to make of this
(whether its selection bias, or if online attitudes reflect just a vocal
minority, or if people in real life are just more shy and dont want to get
in a real world fight so they tell us what we think we want to hear, or if
something else is the case. I dont know. All i know is it was surprising)
[...]
As I wrote in
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.technical/75…:
| [...]
| +1. In a physical meeting, there is higher bandwith, but a
| lot of the payload can be pity, intimidation, "nobody leaves
| before we have an agreement", etc.
Additionally, at a venue like Wikimania, most of the atten-
dees are not there to "work", but take it as some form of
"vacation", so there isn't much incentive to take a stand
about something like Media Viewer, especially as in the end
it is not up for discussion anyhow, so why bother?
Tim