[Foundation-l] 31 august, 20 years of our national holiday "Our romanian language" in Moldova, mo.wikipedia still in cyrillic !

[Milos Rancic]

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Marcus Buck<me at marcusbuck.org> wrote:
> David Gerard hett schreven:
>> 2009/8/31 Cetateanu Moldovanu <cetateanumd at gmail.com>:
>>
>>
>>> I said OUR, OUR country, OUR language, OUR latin script and alphabet. Please
>>> respect us.
>>>
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>>
>> If  by "respect" you mean "agree" and "do what I say" ... then I'm not
>> surprised you have no insight as to why no-one cares about your
>> request.
>>
>>
>> - d.
>>
> I care about his request (which is reasonable, as geni pointed out) and
> I'm sure many other people care too, but don't speak up in this forum.
> Of course it can be annoying, if somebody asks for the same thing again
> and again, but as his request is reasonable, the only thing you can do
> about it is executing the request. The only reason why this is not done
> yet is that nobody, who has the power to do it, cares about it. I really
> disagree with the foundation people more and more loosing touch with the
> communities. It's not just this request. It's also the fact, that
> bugzilla bugs are not worked on for weeks and months, delays in software
> rollouts, and the low worth that is given to community worktime (like
> the example given by Tisza Gergő or the thousands of manhours that are
> wasted every day with setting interwikis which could easily be saved, if
> we had a central interwiki repository and if this repository wouldn't be
> blocked by the developers). Perhaps the foundation should hire new
> staff, whose job it is to _read_ the mailing lists (I'm quite sure, that
> many of the messages at the lists are read by nobody from the foundation
> or just by people who say "not my department") and to make sure that the
> relevant foundation employees take care of requests, questions etc.
> Another function could be taking care of Bugzilla bugs and delegating
> them to the relevant people. And we urgently need new developers. The
> current slow pace makes it clear, that the paid staff isn't even able to
> keep up with maintenance and daily operations. There are really few big
> innovations. We need developers, who can completely focus on innovation.
> Like global preferences, like a central interwiki repository, like an
> integrated map service, like a working interface for category
> intersection, like a Wikidata-project to keep volatile data consistent
> and up-to-date (e.g. population numbers). Known problems since half a
> decade (when I joined Wiki(p/m)edia) and even before. Five years ago I
> understood that these dreams were impossible, but today we have the
> money to actually do it. We earned 2 million recently, so please spend
> some bucks on hiring people to improve the response time to community
> requests and to improve development.

The only contribution of this person to this list is about closing
mo.wp; if I count well, probably for years. And this is not
reasonable.