[Foundation-l] and what if...

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
The creation of content is not something the WMF organisation deals with. It
has started to employ experts in order to make our environment more usable.
As part of the Stanton project, a user interface designer will be included.
This is likely to improve the usability of MediaWiki a lot. By including
such expertise as part of development projects, we can hope that people who
have so far been unable to connect to our wiki way will become empowered and
join us in making our projects grow in vitality.

The notion that many experts have not been part of our community is however
a fallacy, many people have been contributing as part of external projects
to improve content of the en,wp. One such example has been people from the
"Linguist list" working on the linguistics domain.
Thanks,
        GerardM

2008/12/14 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>

> > True, true.
> > But note that this fear seems to be less pregnant (hmm, maybe not the
> > right word, pregnent ?) in WMF, which now has hired "expert" or use some
> > as consultants.
>
> The WMF uses experts for administrative stuff, that is very different
> to using them directly in the creation of content.
>
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