2008/11/6 Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net:
on 11/6/08 10:34 AM, Jim at trodel@gmail.com wrote:
Eric, In my opinion this survey highlights one of the issues that I have with the wikimedia foundation __a failure to collaborate - utilize wikipedians and wikipedia__
By this I mean a failure to use the talented people that are part of the community and failure to use wikipedia as a resource to find those people.
Jim,
What an incredibly astute and very accurate observation. I will be very interested in the response.
Likewise. It does, indeed, seem to be a recurring feature of the WMF's mistakes. (I should clarify, I think most of what they do is great, but there are things that aren't so good and most of them seem to boil down to not consulting the community so that problems could be spotted and fixed before they actually become problematic.)