Hi Diane,
Thanks for the comments. I started to write a longer reply before deciding that, given the general message that I'm hearing of (paraphrasing), "this is fine but a shorter form would be better if you want people to participate", I'll skip writing a longer explanation of how I'm thinking. Thanks for taking the time to write.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 9:44 AM Diane Ranville dranville-ctr@wikimedia.org wrote:
" having a shorter list of subjects could lead to criticism about the content being [...] too reflective of one person's preferences" => well, as Amir said, the content is *already* reflective of just one person's preferences. Also, as Cornelius said, the idea of "what makes you happy" implies a very subjective feeling.
So it will always be just *your* view of what makes you happy, your bias. But: making your email shorter (even going down to just 1 item per week) would make room for others to share *their *views, creating a balance. I hope you try the short version on this list (as I barely have time to go through the Signpost!).
Best,
On Sat, Nov 30, 2019 at 12:53 AM Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Thanks to everyone for the feedback.
One point of some agreement among commenters is that they would prefer WMYHTW emails to be shorter. Those would be faster for me to write, but some problems with having a shorter list of subjects each week are that
it
could more easily lead to criticism about the content being unrepresentative of Wikiverse activities and too reflective of one
person's
preferences.
I had hoped that having a variety of people participate in these threads would add diversity to the content, but participation from others has
been
rare.
I will need more time to process this feedback and think about what to
do.
I don't think that any one option will satisfy everyone. One possibility
is
that I will stop sending these emails to Wikimedia-l, but will continue
to
write the version that appears in *The Signpost*. Another possibility is that I could write the shorter version for a few weeks and see what
people
think about it, but I worry about this option creating new problems, so
at
the moment I a leaning toward the previous option.
If anyone has additional feedback to share then please let me know.
Thank you,
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