Pine, Of course we could benefit from consolidation and pruning of communication channels. This has been the case for at least a decade, how to do that without alienating part of the community that uses the pruned channels is a very difficult task, however. Nevertheless, this does not mean one can claim he did not get involved with an issue because it was communicated too many times over too many places, or rather, though one can claim that it is unlikely he will be taken seriously.
Chico Venancio
2017-03-18 18:52 GMT-03:00 Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com:
My point is more or less the same one that you're making. Communications (too much and too little) and information overload are both challenges. I don't think there's going to be a silver bullet solution, but I hope that WMF will invest effort into addressing this set of problems during the next Annual Plan. Some of this is WMF-specific, but some of it also relates to how we've organized ourselves in the community through organic growth and over time we've developed so many channels that one wonders if we would benefit from some consolidation and pruning.
Pine
On Sat, Mar 18, 2017 at 2:15 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
You mean, "how to deal with people who complain they weren't consulted then turn around and complain they were excessively consulted"? At this point, the appropriate thing would be to put forward a plausible solution rather than complain they did the thing you claimed they hadn't sufficiently done.
- d.
On 18 March 2017 at 20:39, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Chris,
That last paragraph assumes that people (1) know where to look and (2)
have
hours to spend watching countless channels for announcements. On the
other
hand, there's also a problem of burying people in so many
announcements,
surveys, and consultations that people start to tune it all out. This
is
part of a larger set of communications and "information overload"
problems
that I'm hoping that WMF will address, particularly during its next
Annual
Plan.
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