On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:48:58 +0200, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 16:17, Theo10011 <de10...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My main point (although I *did* make it clear), was that volunteer-work >> is >> what this movement is built on. Tell me a single content project that was >> built by paid employees? If we abandon our identity, then how would we >> still >> be volunteer-driven and open. I can argue volunteers do inherently better >> work than paid staff, because they believe in what they do and are >> passionate about it. It is however, just a job for most people who get >> paid >> to do the same. You can not pay someone to care, is what my point was. > > Theo, volunteers do not care about things which require to be > accurate. Besides that, more and more volunteer positions were > replaced by paid staff, beginning with Brion. And that's not the > problem of principle, but the problem of having job done. >
Actually, a precise statement would be SOME volunteers do not care. Or even MANY volunteers do not care. I always had difficulties, at least when I was still active on Russian Wikipedia, but I believe this is the issue on all projects, to explain that some things just need to be done DOES NOT MATTER WHAT. And these things need to be done properly. And if nobody was doing them I felt myself personally responsible for doing this stupid, uninteresting, dull but necessary staff, and was obliged to hear arguments about the wiki way, working for pleasure, and advises of not doing things if I do not find them interesting enough. I must say this was a very frustrating experience. But I hope I am not the only one. Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
