Revolution of 2016/Relations between Wikimedia organizations and Wikimedia community/eo

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Editing community dissatisfied with WMF until Lila came

Brian, I'd be interested to hear how volunteers could be cultivated and supported. We felt under attack by the Foundation until Lila arrived, and I think a lot of editors are grateful to her for having improved that relationship. But not feeling attacked isn't the same as feeling supported.

Why did many people feel attacked or in unwanted adversarial positions before (both among volunteers, and among staff)?

I think first we have to ask: why did many people feel attacked or in unwanted adversarial positions before (both among volunteers, and among staff)? What sort of interactions and behavior were seen as problematic, and what led up to them?

What sort of interactions and behavior were seen as problematic, and what led up to them?

I think first we have to ask: why did many people feel attacked or in unwanted adversarial positions before (both among volunteers, and among staff)? What sort of interactions and behavior were seen as problematic, and what led up to them?

Given that several people on this list have described improved relationships with staff in the last year or so, what has actually changed in those interactions, and what can we do to make sure we keep doing well?

Second we have to ask: given that several people on this list have described improved relationships with staff in the last year or so, what has actually changed in those interactions, and what can we do to make sure we keep doing well?

What do our volunteer editors, module writers, template tweakers, copyright divers, and library researchers need to further the mission that they don't already have, and what can WMF do to help them?

Third we have to ask: what do our volunteer editors, module writers, template tweakers, copyright divers, and library researchers need to further the mission that they don't already have, and what can WMF do to help them?

Respondeco

3. Developing an attitude of social responsibility toward us within the Foundation, rather than seeing us as a nuisance and an obstacle.

Empowering volunteers

Some more recent initiatives like the Community Tech team have been specifically meant to help "power users" get stuff done; I hope that's working out and helping, and that the focus on providing tools that our contributors want and need continues.

Komunumaj deziroj

We need to be building something an uneducated truck driver can use as readily as a professor can, technology is our tool not our purpose.

Komunikado

As an aside, this is an example of why I find statements like "the WMF has no willingness to discuss X" to be problematic; like the larger Wikimedia community, the Wikimedia Foundation is a collective of individuals with a broad range of opinions. Statements like "WMF thinks X" or "Community thinks Y" are almost always trivially false. I find it better to be specific. :-)