[Foundation-l] tech team - content community bottleneck
Florence Devouard
Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 11 20:26:13 UTC 2008
Domas Mituzas wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the developer who made the
>> switch
>> is not an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation. Take it to wikitech-
>> l or
>> wikien-l, please.
>
>
> Well, there is quite a bit of foundation issue here, and I'd like to
> explaim some general projects bits (that are neither technology, nor
> single-project related):
>
> See, Jens is not employee, though has been the developer with most
> community-facing attitude. He has been implementing, at his own will,
> most of community requests. He is a volunteer, and has been dedicated
> to our ideals more and longer than most of us.
> When members of communities decide to attack with "This developer has
> exhibited extremely poor judgment and a gross disregard for the
> WIkipedia community" and nobody takes that back or apologizes, it is
> no fun to continue doing all these small things.
200% agree.
> Foundation doesn't really facilitate this process at the moment - it
> is all left to individual care - both filtering, evaluating if change
> X would successfully follow all few hundreds policy pages, and
> implementation, what often requires extensive code review and
> familiarity of our operating environment.
> Do note, that community representatives come not only with these
> changes - various 'oh noes, remove this from site' requests are quite
> common, and every of them are questionable.
>
> If people will be going to raise such huge flames and attack
> implementors for actually doing the job, we will really ask
> foundation to facilitate not only all the evaluation of every request
> that comes in from communities, but to provide with implementor
> resources too.
And we would do well to refuse doing such thing. Foundation would become
a huge bottleneck and community will then begin complaining that we are
hindering the development of the projects.
> We have far more fun things (our jobs, lives, even wikipedia
> technology development) to do than go into endless debates with
> people who favor endless debates, sorry.
Could not agree more.
Ant
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