(...) The Wikimedia Foundation is too much
de-attached from the community.
This is so true, Romaine! Especially the new staffer who never edited wikipedia before
becoming staffer.
Of course there is also wmf staff closely involved in the community and doing a great
job. It is always a pleasure to do stuff together with them! Really.
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2015 01:59:46 +0200
From: romaine.wiki(a)gmail.com
To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely
blocked by WMF fundraising
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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