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> I do not think that parties in Accra using donation funds is an integral part of "managing that community". Well, that's why the opinion is unhelpful. Wikip
by Blahah 6y ago
> I do not think that parties in Accra using donation funds is an integral part of "managing that community".
Well, that's why the opinion is unhelpful.
Wikipedia runs the largest decentralised and communal knowledge curation project in history. Making it and keeping it great takes a lot of free labour, all over the world. They have to organise communities at many many different levels, and often that involves getting a bunch of people in a room together - people who aren't getting paid - for a few days to make a ton of decisions and design and implement things. It involves recruiting new people to help and teaching them the organisational processes and skills, and nurturing new people up through the organisation, and resolving comflicts. All of that is absolutely necessary to make something like wikipedia work and barely scratches the surface.
A party for the people who worked their asses off for free is really an incredibly cheap way to reward people.
- h_anna_h 6y agoYou think that it is unhelpful and this is fine, you are free to ignore my comment and donate to wikipedia if you want. My post is meant to inform people so that they can make an informed decision and not feel like they have been scammed. As for whether parties are important for wikipedia, anyone interested in this topic can read the links that I posted earlier. There was a debate whether they are helpful or not if I remember correctly.
- Blahah 6y agoWikipedia is good at running wikipedia. They produce something incredible. If you want to exercise moral control over people who do jobs you don't understand, by all means keep your money. But it's not helpful for you to encourage others to do that.
- h_anna_h 6y ago> Wikipedia is good at running wikipedia Many wikipedians will disagree with you. > They produce something incredible The volunteers do. > But it's not helpful for you to encourage others to do that. Again, my desire was to inform people as to not regret their decision to donate, unlike me.