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On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Domas Mituzas wrote:
Hi!
It's for Wikimedia operations as well as MediaWiki development. The latter tends to take up much more of the list traffic in practice, though.
Indeed, staff-ization of WMF made more and more of communications internal, for better or worse.
Domas
We could learn from IBM's experience with the open source community. They famously made it company policy for staff developers to communicate through the Linux community forums rather than through internal company methods. This was key to their acceptance and success in the open source world, in particular early in their involvement.
While there is a small cost in forcing communication to be public rather than private, the dividends are usually worth it.
- -Mike