+1
Great to hearing your experience. As being a new ED too (3 months now) I can indentify myself with your experience: the first month is about listening and getting to know :)
All the best for what is to come! Hope to meeting you asap!
Hugs from Argentina.
2014-05-28 2:48 GMT-03:00 Nurunnaby Chowdhury nh@nhasive.com:
+1 Thank you for this write-up. Happy to read..:)
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:24 AM, MZMcBride z@mzmcbride.com wrote:
Lila Tretikov wrote:
I wanted to give you an update on my first three weeks of Wikimedia immersion -- this will also go on the blog. As you probably noticed, my leadership approach is rooted in observation and focused discussions -- this means I watch and listen more than I talk. But I expect that you
are
probably curious about what I have observed and learned so far, and to know a little more about who I am.
[...]
Thank you for this write-up. It was nice to read. :-)
Your recommendations on areas you see as priorities for development (while keeping in mind that not everything can be a priority at once!); [...]
I think this continues to be a huge pain point. Developer resources are scarce and expensive and there's often a feeling that the latest
Wikimedia
Foundation initiatives trump all other worthwhile projects. I think we need to find a better way to more fairly allocate resources.
As a concrete example, there continue to be dozens of Wikimedia
Foundation
developers and other staff specifically focused on the English Wikipedia and sometimes Wikimedia Commons, while the other sister projects such as Wiktionary, Wikibooks, and Wikisource continue to receive almost no
direct
attention. (Over the past few years, even the term "sister projects" has become mildly insulting. These projects are more accurately the
red-headed
stepchild projects.) This won't happen quickly, but we must make it a
goal
to do better in this area.
MZMcBride
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