I'm sure dismissively calling people's legitimate concerns "playing with (a) toy" will help greatly in that regard.
If someone's going to apply for a job where they'll be scrutinized by a large volunteer community, it is not unreasonable to determine if they can withstand that type of scrutiny by a real world test, nor to find whether they'll be responsive and direct to concerns brought up when that happens. The community has had enough of "diplomatic" null statements with lots of words, and should be. Someone needs to give an answer, not just blather on and wind up saying nothing concrete at all.
It is right for the community to be fed up with that and demand that a candidate go through that process. Yes, it would be hard. Yes, it would discourage some applicants. Those are the applicants we want to discourage. We want someone who fits well with our particular project, and who will be responsive and direct with our volunteer community. They are the underpinnings of every project WMF undertakes.
Todd Allen
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 8:13 AM, Tony Souter tony1@iinet.net.au wrote:
Folks: are we still playing with this toy?
I've sat here and watched this discourse - variously frivolous, slightly insulting, and embarrassing - and said nothing in the hope it would just fizzle away.
But amazingly, it's still here.
We have to accept that while crowdsourcing is the genius of Wikipedia and a few of its sister projects, it's totally inappropriate for choosing the executive director of a big, prominent Foundation that lives in a competitive, complex, and often negative jungle. There's a bunch of reasons for doing this largely away from the gaze of the rest of the world. Do I really need to spell them out?
It would be good to move on to more useful and practical topics.
Tony
On 02/02/2014, at 1:32 AM, Benjamin Lees emufarmers@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 3:29 AM, ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com
wrote:
Chad, I wonder if Rory has been considered. (:
Given his history of biting newbies, I'm not sure he'd be in a good position to help solve the editor retention problem. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l,
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