What is most remarkable in many ways is that there has been as much progress
on quality and on meeting user needs despite a lack of measurements
connected with those. Perhaps that it attributable to the contributor
population being a reasonably good match with the user population so that
honest co
Awesome :)
-Original Message-
From: Fowler, John
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 3:13 PM
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
Cc: Lanzerotti, Laura; Cox, Serita
Subject: RE: [Foundation-l] Lack of research on Wikipedia
Hi all,
I stumbled across this thread when I was browsing through so
Hi all,
I stumbled across this thread when I was browsing through some past
foundation-l posts. My name is John Fowler, and I'm with the Bridgespan
Group, working with the Wikimedia Foundation during the strategic
planning process to develop a fact base to inform future work.
We're trying to pull
2009/8/24 Chad :
> I don't know. I don't follow those discussions. I was just clarifying the
> question as to "what user roles play into this?" Right now, that only
> includes the sysadmins.
Implementing the final decision is a job for sysadmins, certainly, but
it shouldn't be the sysadmin the mak
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 2009/8/24 Chad :
>> The only user requirement for this is that a shell user has to
>> perform the actual decision. The community makes the decisions
>> about opening/closing new projects, and the sysadmins carry
>> out the actual task.
>
> But
2009/8/24 Chad :
> The only user requirement for this is that a shell user has to
> perform the actual decision. The community makes the decisions
> about opening/closing new projects, and the sysadmins carry
> out the actual task.
But what is "the community" (the community of the project being
cl
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 2:14 PM, Andrew
Turvey wrote:
> First, if the conclusion is that no procedure exists, a notice should be put
> on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects stating this
> so that peoples' expectations are appropriately managed.
>
> Second, is that corre
First, if the conclusion is that no procedure exists, a notice should be put on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects stating this so
that peoples' expectations are appropriately managed.
Second, is that correct? Looking at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_c
Hoi,
There are many ways you can approach paid contributions. Saying that it does
not work is certainly for localisation manifestly incorrect. The success of
the translatewiki.net rally is a case in point. It does work.
Now there is a question about WHO is paying for localisations. The team of
tra
