I will be happy to learn of any specific and measurable new goals WMF has for movement communications and specific plans for how those goals will be achieved. I agree that vague statements about improved communication are insufficient.
Pine On Oct 3, 2015 8:36 PM, "Craig Franklin" <[email protected]> wrote: > I take your point Pine, but "improving communication with the community" > seems to have been a WMF priority for as long as I can remember, yet there > doesn't seem to have been any consistent improvement, as we can see here. > A new approach and direction to how matters like this are communicated is > clearly needed, because the current one doesn't seem to be working at all. > > Cheers, > Craig > > On 4 October 2015 at 13:25, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Sigh. Decisions being made behind closed doors and then being announced > > much later than they should have been is a bit of a WMF pattern that I > > would like to see addressed. My understanding is that Lila is putting > some > > emphasis on improved communications in Q2, and I would be interested in > > seeing some specific measures put in place to address the kind of > situation > > that seems to have happened again here. > > > > On Sat, Oct 3, 2015 at 8:13 PM, Craig Franklin < > [email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > You could excuse the Perth and Manila bid teams for being very angry at > > > having wasted a lot of time and energy when the decision was apparently > > > made behind closed doors weeks ago. Even if you think the idea of > > getting > > > rid of the expensive bid process is a good idea (and I do), the way > that > > > this was not communicated to the community is simply abominable. > > > > > > Cheers, > > > Craig > > > > > > On 4 October 2015 at 08:13, Nathan <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > Evidently the Signpost has scooped the WMF by revealing that Montreal > > has > > > > been selected for the 2017 Wikimania host city in a secret process > that > > > > completed this past August. [1] > > > > > > > > It seems like the community could have been looped into this new > method > > > > before it was a done deal. > > > > > > > > ~Nathan > > > > > > > > [1] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-30/News_and_notes > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > > [email protected] > > > > Unsubscribe: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > > [email protected] > > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
