I think you describe the essence of the problem: there is a big gap between
the community and the Wikimedia Foundation.
I have a long list of problems from the past years that all seem to
originate in this basic problem. The Wikimedia Foundation is too much
de-attached from the community.
At the same time I notice that since last year, Lila is trying to improve
this situation, but there is a very very long way to go to move the
Wikimedia Foundation away from the dark side of the moon.
(To prevent generalisation: I know also a lot of staff in WMF that are
closely involved in the community and doing a great job in being attached
with the community.)
Romaine
2015-08-21 22:22 GMT+02:00 Michael Peel <email(a)mikepeel.net>et>:
From my perspective, this strikes me as part of the
reason why national
organisations are well suited to running the Wikimedia fundraising
campaigns rather than a global organisation: if WMIT was organising both
WLM and the national fundraising campaign, then this conflict wouldn't have
arisen / could have been resolved locally.
Thanks,
Mike
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