[Foundation-l] Priorities

[GerardM]

Hoi,
It is in the in the way we present the Wikimedia Foundation; in interviews
and in presentations the English language Wikipedia dominates. When
something is done in the English Wikipedia it is news. Something of equal
relevance in another project is not. When you consider the massive
improvements that have happened in Wiktionary ... Nobody knows, seems to
care. This is the pattern. When people discuss technical developments it
does not happen when it is not of relevance for the English Wikipedia. Who
cares that there is no language file in MediaWiki for a fifth of the
languages we say MediaWiki supports ?

Really, I do care for other things then for the English language Wikipedia.
I have found that I should not rely on anyone if something needs to get done
because it is almost certain that not much will happen. I am thrilled that
the WMF is getting its house in order. I hope that with more developers we
will finally see some code accepted / finished. The backlog is overwhelming.


With things getting more and more organised, with the notion of fundraising
to become a foundation activity, I hope that many cool mash ups will be
realised. There is so much we are in a position to do if we had the will,
the man power and the endurance to do them. Really If you ask me I hope that
the WMF will raise EUR 4.000.000,- and will put all this money to work.

Thanks,
    GerardM

On 10/23/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> James Forrester wrote:
> > On 22/10/2007, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> >> on 10/22/07 6:19 PM, GerardM at gerard.meijssen at gmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>> I agree with your sentiments. However, this is the Foundation list and
> it is
> >>> largely an English language Wikipedia phenomena. I do not feel that it
> is an
> >>> issue that I should deal with because I am not really connected to
> what
> >>> happens on the English language Wikipedia. Even though it is "not
> good"TM it
> >>> is not something that feels like "us" to me. It is you lot of the
> English
> >>> language Wikipedia that have to deal with it.
> >>>
> >> We in the English Wikipedia do have a lot of our act to clean up.
> >>
> > Absolutely.
> >
> > However, I think it is fair to say that if the toxicity of the English
> > Wikipedia at this point is so great as to impact on the Foundation
> > (e.g. on the Foundation's ability to raise money), then that is
> > definitely a matter for the list.
> >
> > If necessary, the Wikimedia community at large will have to take
> > action to "fix" the English Wikipedia community - but "coup" is such
> > an ugly word. :-)
> The most frightening implication in what Gerard says is that some
> smaller projects might take the behaviour on the English Wikipedia as a
> role model.
>
> Ec
>
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