On 21/08/15 14:39, Oliver Keyes wrote:
On 21 August 2015 at 06:43, Quim Gil qgil@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 11:49 AM, Steinsplitter Wiki < steinsplitter-wiki@live.com> wrote:
- I see a lot (maybe 70%) staffer edits there.
I also would like to see more edits from volunteers and other affiliations. Please jump in! Most WMF employees drafting and discussing there are doing so out of their personal interest, with no WMF directive and most likely on their own time. I'm basically the only exception.
Speaking as a WMF employee who is involved in the discussion, this is my personal opinion - hence my choice of accounts to comment with. I suspect that WMF employees probably make up a big proportion of the technical community itself (something this proposal will hopefully help change!) and so large amounts of WMF participation is not surprising.
If nothing else, WMF employees are likely the bulk of technical contributors with the spare time to actually talk meta about this stuff, since they're already spending their paid time making things. Imagine if you were doing all of this in your spare time, would you rather be using your limited time making things, or talking about some ephemeral proposed thing that may not ever even affect you even if it does become real? Having to make that choice could impact matters too.
-I