This is not a good point but it always the same point of discussion:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar
Nothing new.
Both models have their own strengths and their own weaknesses.
regards
On 03.01.2015 14:57, Mathias Damour wrote:
User:Pi zero made a pretty good point here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:LilaTretikov_(WMF)&am...
"The WMF is internally structured to centrally create major software initiatives to be designed, implemented, and imposed all from the top down. This is the way commercial enterprises approach proprietary software, so it's natural that people who come from that world (both administrators and software developers) would tend to do things that way. The approach is well suited to the purpose of creating software that maximizes customers' dependency on the commercial enterprise. In other words, it minimizes customers' ablity to improve, generalize, duplicate, or even maintain the software on their own. However, this approach is deeply inappropriate if you're trying to nurture volunteer wikis. (...)"