On Aug 11, 2014 1:24 PM, "Tim Landscheidt" tim@tim-landscheidt.de wrote:
"C. Scott Ananian" cananian@wikimedia.org wrote:
Almost every WMF developer attended Wikimania this year, and there was quite a lot of fruitful discussion and feedback given. Somewhat surprisingly (to me, it was my first Wikimania) the tone in person was quite different than what you might expect from email list traffic.
Perhaps
that was self-selection, as the attendees at Wikimedia were the members
of
the community interested in constructively working on solutions.
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Tim
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I dont know which part you want cited... but i can also confirm that ancedotally people at wikimania were much more positive about certain feature developments than the general attitude online. What to make of this (whether its selection bias, or if online attitudes reflect just a vocal minority, or if people in real life are just more shy and dont want to get in a real world fight so they tell us what we think we want to hear, or if something else is the case. I dont know. All i know is it was surprising)
Otoh i encountered a number of people not thrilled over super protection (although still not as many as i would expect, all things considered)
--bawolff