[Foundation-l] Foundation too passive, wasting community talent

[The Mono]

Yes, you're right.


On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:28 PM, Jan Kucera (Kozuch) <garbage5 at seznam.cz>wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> why is the Foundation so passive??? I have been since almost 5 years with
> various Wikimedia projects and I can really see NO PROGRESS from the side of
> the Foundation but more employees, 2 new blogs, new Vector skin and maybe
> MediaWiki performance tweaks. My participation declined radically, because I
> can not feel any real support from the foundation. It is not 2006 anymore.
> Look at what other websites have done in 5 years and you realize they have
> undergone major redesigns. And as someone wrote here lately Wikipedia still
> seems so 2005. This is OK for an encyclopedia, but unfortunately the way
> volunteers work is stuck in 2005 too...
>
> Large-scale LiquidThreads deployment is far far away to allow more
> sophisticated discussion on wikis. Few central notices is what the Strategy
> project just resulted in, without any "serious" action (anyone to remember
> that  "call for action" thing?). I really doubt the community is able to do
> more than just bring few ideas (proposals) together.
>
> The Fellowship program has been largely a PR thing only so far, wasting its
> great potential to bring a real change in how Wikimedia uses its (financial)
> resources. Similarly working grant program for wide community is needed to
> be able to do the necessary progress. Besides that, we as the community have
> very, very little control over what the 5 tenths of staff are paid for (I
> mean a real tasks breakdown).
>
> Sophisticated decision mechanism simply does not exist on a community
> level, and those on Foundation level are of little importance. Is it really
> that hard to launch an ideas bank (at ideas.wikimedia.org for example) to
> boil down what the community really needs instead of letting volunteers have
> endless discussions in wiki-style? Will someone finally realize that wiki is
> not the holy-grail of "collaboration" and maybe other tools are needed too?
>
> Videos are still not being offered in various bitrates which makes them
> unusable within the encyclopedia, etc. etc. There has been literally no
> progress at all from an established editor point of view and that is very
> depriving. Very little is done in supporting new projects creation, Data
> Commons being an example.
>
> I wish I had the power to change all these things, but unfortunately I do
> not. Of course, if I do not want to have endless discussion in wiki (or
> mailing list) -style...
>
>
> Cheers,
> Kozuch
>
> http://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Kozuch
>
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