[Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

[Marcus Buck]

  An'n 25.09.2010 18:32, hett Milos Rancic schreven:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 18:28, Marcus Buck<me at marcusbuck.org>  wrote:
>>   An'n 25.09.2010 17:53, hett Milos Rancic schreven:
>>> Today I am working from my netbook. It is not so easy to find the
>>> right button and the screen is small. I wanted to upload 20k logo for
>>> new Wikipedia edition (in Banjar) [1]. I wanted to find the right
>>> copyright tag (logo is trademark of WMF). So, I clicked on
>>> "Permissions" link, instead on question mark. When I went back all of
>>> the form was blanked.
>> I guess you are right, that the Wikimedia bureaucracy can be improved
>> although I have no actual ideas how to do it. But I don't think that
>> your example with Commons upload is a good example. This behaviour
>> certainly is a total failure in usability (I never experienced the
>> problem because I use the classic uplaod form). But the problem is not
>> conflicting design goals of developers and Commons admins. It's just
>> some error in the Javascript. The error can be fixed and the upload form
>> should work as expected. If anybody knows where in the code the form
>> blanking happens please report it so it can be fixed.
> There are other issues besides JavaScript. I needed 15 minutes to
> upload image (after the initial problem) not because JavaScript
> problem, but because of not various requirements which are not well
> defined.
Okay. Could you elaborate on that? What do you think should be changed? 
Which requirements are not well defined?

So far I don't understand where exactly you see the influence of "bad 
bureaucracy" playing a role here.

Marcus Buck
User:Slomox