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As a Wikimedian for over ten years, I'm concerned that the WMF has been listening less and less to the community over time. Examples include the Superprotect in

As a Wikimedian for over ten years, I'm concerned that the WMF has been listening less and less to the community over time. Examples include the Superprotect incident, Flow, and the rebranding (in which the WMF sought community feedback, and then proceeded to ignore it and do the exact opposite of the overwhelming consensus). I trust Wales more than someone nominated via the vague "community nomination process". This looks to me like a takeover by certain members of the Board who believe they know better than the community.

MaxBarraclough 6y ago
Please expand on those three incidents.
- inquirerofsorts 6y ago
  Please put in minimal effort yourself before demanding it of others in one sentence? This took 30 seconds: #1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superprotect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superprotect > "Superprotect" was the name for a superuser tool granted to Wikimedia Foundation staff but denied to all Wikimedia community members starting in August 2014.[92][circular reference] Wikimedia Foundation staff used the tool to force the installation of the Wikimedia Foundation's software against the wishes of the Wikimedia community. This conflict was unprecedented. Erik Möller, then director of the Wikimedia Foundation, managed the Superprotect tool. The software in dispute was MediaViewer, which was a software feature that guided Wikipedia readers into viewing images in a certain way. Wikimedia commentator Andrew Lih described the superprotect feature as "Orwellian-sounding". #2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow > Flow, also known as Structured Discussions, is a project of the Global Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation to build a different discussion and collaboration system for Wikimedia projects. #3 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comments_on_the_Rebranding_Strategy#Intro https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comments_on_the_Rebranding_S...

MaxBarraclough 6y ago

Please expand on those three incidents.

inquirerofsorts 6y ago
Please put in minimal effort yourself before demanding it of others in one sentence? This took 30 seconds: #1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superprotect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superprotect > "Superprotect" was the name for a superuser tool granted to Wikimedia Foundation staff but denied to all Wikimedia community members starting in August 2014.[92][circular reference] Wikimedia Foundation staff used the tool to force the installation of the Wikimedia Foundation's software against the wishes of the Wikimedia community. This conflict was unprecedented. Erik Möller, then director of the Wikimedia Foundation, managed the Superprotect tool. The software in dispute was MediaViewer, which was a software feature that guided Wikipedia readers into viewing images in a certain way. Wikimedia commentator Andrew Lih described the superprotect feature as "Orwellian-sounding". #2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Flow > Flow, also known as Structured Discussions, is a project of the Global Collaboration team at the Wikimedia Foundation to build a different discussion and collaboration system for Wikimedia projects. #3 https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comments_on_the_Rebranding_Strategy#Intro https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Comments_on_the_Rebranding_S...