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This was/is actually an extremely controversial project. The corporation (basically the Executive Director) pursued the grant and the idea without soliciting in
by jcrben 11y ago
This was/is actually an extremely controversial project. The corporation (basically the Executive Director) pursued the grant and the idea without soliciting input or really disclosing it to the community of editors, and eventually one of the community-elected trustees was removed for questioning the lack of transparency. The community has a long list of software improvements that they'd like to see to the core platform.
A recent employee survey showed only 10% of WMF staff approved of the Executive Director, probably in large part due to things like this.
A critical take on the project as it has been handled: http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/82112 http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.org.wikimedia.foundation/82...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-01-13/In_focus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2... is a pretty good (but dated) overview from Wikipedia's weekly newspaper, but there's a few others in the Signpost and a few blog posts across the web.
- bravura 11y agoA bit more detail is shared in this comment below: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chris_wot https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chris_wot
- deleted 11y ago[deleted]
- runasroot 11y agoWikipedia needs to solve it's management issues before it starts developing new software...
- chris_wot 11y agoI've vouched for this comment.
- kenrick95 11y agoThere's a new Signpost edition, covering this grant document and also three other internal documents that were leaked. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2016-02-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/S...
- araneae 11y ago> and eventually one of the community-elected trustees was removed for questioning the lack of transparency This was a hypothesis about his removal when he was initially was removed, and has since been refuted by multiple sources.
- uhlume 11y ago[citation needed]