FT2, 13/05/2013 01:59:
[...]
This is not at all the first time of clumsy handling, or conflicting
actions and perceptions, leading to tensions and drama between the editing
community and foundation. [...]
I don't know if that's the actual problem,
I would like the outcome to be a *living document*, like any other major
policy, that can be used to *understand how to reduce friction*, and *"best
practices" and understandings of viewpoints, within different parts of our
Movement*, and thereby ensuring everyone involved is more aware of these
aspects and of "best practices" in working with other areas and "subgroups"
in our Community. [...]
nor if this may help, even if it was possible to write such a document.
I thought yes after reading https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Patience and
remembering http://meatballwiki.org/wiki/CommunityMayNotScale «community
standards and unwritten rules stop working», which may suggest to make
rules written.
But Clifford Adams notes on that page: «I wonder if it is the community
focus that is not scaling». Indeed, what's the focus/scope of
foundationwiki now? I don't have the slightest idea, after the recent
facts. Perhaps the WMF does, but it completely failed to communicate it:
[[Wikimedia:Welcome]] has never been updated; roles are now more unclear
than ever.
We also have a precedent: for a while people tried to establish
standards for Internal-l, and mostly failed; then they started wondering
*why* did Internal-l even exist, and again failed to answer; conclusion,
they just decided to stop communicating and now hardly look at each
other. Lovely.
So the two concrete suggestions to which I came while writing this are:
1) Decide who at WMF is in charge of WMF wiki (Comms would seem the most
obvious? it's all LCA department anyway), define its scope and
communicate it; decide roles and technologies in consequence. If
[[Wikimedia:Welcome]] hadn't been so outdated, maybe community members
would have understood what was expected from them; etc.
2) Appoint Clifford Adams to the advisory board and start using the AB
at last? ;-) Sunir Shah too (already noted several times on this list).
Nemo
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