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Transcribing old poetry (ENWS admin), programming (XTools contributor, script writer, bot op, some other stuff).
Still here? I could make a rant on WMF. I could. But we've all already heard it, haven't we?
Anyhow, if WMF people come by[1]:
- On-wiki content is made by users[2].
- No one likes being ignored[3]. And ignoring the question[4] is never responsible behaviour[5].
- Your essential impunity[6] is not[7] an encouragement to be irresponsible[8][9].
- ↑ what I say here is for some specific parts of WMF that have exhibited this behaviour multiple times; not intended for WMF in general
- ↑ and should be theirs to control; I can't understand how some WMF employees feel authorised to ignore community consensus or content without even caring for offering an explanation
- ↑ and especially not by someone whose job is to communicate, and who says they're welcoming feedback
- ↑ also known as "I Didn't Hear That", dodging the question, stonewalling, and other terms
- ↑ if you don't know, say so; just say something! (else it can feel awfully like disdainful overlords)
- ↑ and that's the word, sadly enough... Well, perhaps rather a lack of accountability? I don't know when and at what step in the development of Wikimedia it was decided that people getting paid for this are exempted from community rules (imagine if we did that for paid editors!—though of course it's not exactly the same thing)
- ↑ or rather, should not be taken as, because it was (I hope at least) not meant as such
- ↑ the amount of ignoring concerns I've seen some WMF employees do (4 years and counting one topic on one wiki) is below standards for any editor on most wikis
- ↑ WMF is also where I've seen disputable examples of code stewardship: for instance, deploying an extension to prod, not looking at bug reports for more than a month and a half after that, continuing prod deployments meanwhile, and only looking at bug reports when specifically nudged on the deployment tasks. I'm having trouble understanding why people who make a living out of this are put under less strict rules than volunteer developers.
- ↑ These issues come up quite often. Vector 22 and paragraph margins; QuickSurveys barging into page content; the fundraising banners and continued fake urgency; "simple summaries"; MobileFrontend setting rem sizes on all p tags. Those are the examples that I have come across in my work. There are probably others.