[Foundation-l] My 10 wishes list for 2008

[SJ Klein]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Christiano Moreschi wrote:

> 1. People trust de.wiki because, well, the Germans are Germans,

Of course.

> 3. Any problems here (which in turn impact on No.1) seem to stem from a 
> lack of money, IMO.

As MediaWiki is one of the most widely used pieces of personal and group 
software in the world, there may be ways to better use the interest of 
other users and non-core developers to improve things.

> 8. The most important thing to note here is that every time WMF has 
> ballsed up, it's been due to a lack of professionalism.

Cite?  I don't know what "ballsed up" or "professionalism" mean to you, 
but this sounds unlikely to be true for most definitions.

> Probably also worth making the point that since this fundraiser shows 
> the "milk the community" fundraising has its severe limits (and this is 
> agrees with the literature I have read concerning professional

It shows no such thing.  There are much larger annual community 
fundraisers.

> My personal view is that the community does not deserve to be running 
> their own shop in the slightest

Of course if you don't trust your community, you may find it hard to get 
support from it.  I suppose you would never have suggested a community be 
entrusted with writing reference material to begin with?

SJ