Seeing the partner of the WMF ED going out of his way actively to run about on multiple public channels to support and promote Wikipediocracy, a website owned by Gregory Kohs and which is used by him to lobby his obsessive anti-Wikimedia yellow journalism, is increasingly disturbing and worrying.
You can just call me Wil. :)
It would have been great had Wil taken the advice from the most experienced long term Wikimedia volunteers and re-focused for a month or two on gaining practical experience at volunteering on Wikimedia projects, and in turn gaining the trust of fellow volunteers, before attempting to single-handedly attempt to take a lead on community politics by using the name of his parter as his calling card. Were he writing on Wikipediocracy using the benefit of that experience, then this would feel rather less like Wil taking his views from that site and immediately promoting them on Wikimedia channels.
I have been working on that practical experience. But people keep replying to this thread, so I keep coming back to provide what answers I can.
Again, Fae, I really am not interested in politics. I will promote views that I think are worth promoting anywhere I people seem interested in them. If you aren't interested, please feel free to ignore me. I've been hearing from quite a lot of people who are.
Lila Tretikov will need to work extremely hard with the (productive) volunteer community to gain confidence in her personal judgement when it comes to holding the future strategy for the Wikimedia Community and remove the bad taste this political gaming is leaving behind. Along with the inevitable suspicion that this has been a not-very-covert ploy by Lila to jumpstart re-engineering our community.
Hmmm. That's a new one to me. :)
Do any WMF Trustees have an opinion about these shenanigans by Wil, or even better, Lila?
I wouldn't know about that.
Wil - take a break away from the keyboard, and seek some sensible advice before going yet further along the public path you are committing yourself and Lila to. At this point, I find it had to imagine any scenario where your actions this week turn out to have been a clever and wise strategy for Wikimedia.
Wikimedia can take care of its own strategy, as far as I'm concerned. I appreciate the advice about the keyboard. And this conversation is getting pretty repetitive, isn't it?
Thanks. ,Wil