[Foundation-l] My 10 wishes list for 2008

[Christiano Moreschi]

Oops, meant to say that cyberstalking will never stop.

CM


Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.

> From: moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:36:30 +0000
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] My 10 wishes list for 2008
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> Thanks for this.
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> 1. People trust de.wiki because, well, the Germans are Germans, and, more importantly, they have stable versions. This means that quantity levels can be expanded safely. At enwiki's WikiProject Opera, we ruthlessly milked the Germans' fantastic series on Salieri's operas for our Salieri month. 
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> 2. Wonderful, but people should realise that WMF will either swim with the English Wikipedia, or will sink with it. No other project has half the name recognition. Which would make the enwiki community rejecting No.1 a bit of an issue.
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> 3. Any problems here (which in turn impact on No.1) seem to stem from a lack of money, IMO. If WMF had the money to employ a full-time team of developers,  which I don't believe it does, there wouldn't be an issue. Skipping 4...
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> 5. Quick note on cyberstalking - happens everywhere, and its never going to happen. Moreover, its impact is overstated, and the correct response is NOT "Let's out the people who out us" - which often is, in actual fact, what happens. Skipping 6, only noting that idea has been kicking around for a while - I was vaguely curious why it was revived right at this moment? Also skip 7...
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> 8. The most important thing to note here is that every time WMF has ballsed up, it's been due to a lack of professionalism. The same is also true of the various press-reported dramas on enwiki, now I think about it (not that that's at all relevant). It's not so important how it's done, but levels of general basic competence have to vastly increase. Probably also worth making the point that since this fundraiser shows the "milk the community" fundraising has its severe limits (and this is agrees with the literature I have read concerning professional fundraising), most of WMF's raised money is surely going to have to come from major private donors - wealthy individuals (as is usually the case). In terms of independence, this is surely something to worry about more than the possibility of a mostly-pro Board. The solution to this issue is surely discreet advertising - the subsequent cashflow would also provide enough money to solve most of the other problems, at least so I'd have thought. One thing is fairly sure - you will not find much professionalism at all in this ambiguous concept of "the community", and if you want things done right, by and large you have to pay for it. My personal view is that the community does not deserve to be running their own shop in the slightest, but I realise that is not a terribly popular point of view. Skip 9, ditto 10...
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> and Happy New Year to all!
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> CM
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> > Date: Tue, 1 Jan 2008 20:50:55 +0100
> > From: anthere at anthere.org
> > To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org; fdevouard at wikimedia.org
> > Subject: [Foundation-l] My 10 wishes list for 2008
> > 
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > In my country, as well as in many countries (though not all), today is 
> > the first day of the new year. First of all, as is traditional, let me 
> > present my [[edit:wishes]] to all of you. I hope you will be in good 
> > health, will meet many successes, and will have fun in what you are doing.
> > 
> > Second, I would like to share with you my wikimedia-related-stuff wish 
> > list. I am pretty sure we will not all have the same, not even amongst 
> > board members, but here is my list anyway. As it is not a good idea to 
> > be too greedy, I limited myself to 10 wishes.
> > 
> > 1. Quality
> > 2. Promotion of lesser known projects
> > 3. Software development
> > 4. License, international laws and compatibility
> > 5. Wikimania, reinventing the wheel, and civility
> > 6. Wikicouncil
> > 7. Chapters and general assembly
> > 8. Board membership, election
> > 9. financial sustainability, controls and independance
> > 10. Organization. Clarification of board role and limits to executive 
> > authority


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