[Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury

Andrew Whitworth wknight8111 at gmail.com
Mon Mar 31 22:32:30 UTC 2008


On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Majorly <axel9891 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>  I don't have any issues with the members of the jury, but others might, and
>  there's currently no real way to bring up problems.

I agree with Majorly on this, and maybe this is the root reason why
people seem to be so disgruntled with these processes. We've got this
closed and secretive selection where a small group are making these
sweeping decisions. The "community" (however you choose to define
that) isn't given any input in this matter whatsoever. We don't get to
help in the decision-making process (except for submitting bids which
are judged on unknown criteria), and we don't get to express problems
in any orderly way after the fact.

I won't harp on this issue anymore here other then to say, as I say
often, that a little bit of openness and communication can go a long
way to solving problems.

--Andrew Whitworth



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