Sue's five-year plan, strategery in motion Options

[thekohser]

Sue Gardner has posted the new Five-Year Plan.

BayNewser sums it up as follows:

Wikimedia Not Going to Invest in China, Africa, Paid Editors

And my comment there:

In other words, the WMF will continue to geek out on hard drives, bandwidth, and marveling at how many page views they garner. But, they will do nothing to work responsibly and ethically toward building a higher-quality, reliable compendium of human knowledge. Thus driving home the truth that Wikipedia is a massive online role-playing game, not an educational charity project. In a word, fraudulent.

[victim of censorship]

Sue Gardner has posted the new Five-Year Plan.

BayNewser sums it up as follows:

Wikimedia Not Going to Invest in China, Africa, Paid Editors

And my comment there:

In other words, the WMF will continue to geek out on hard drives, bandwidth, and marveling at how many page views they garner. But, they will do nothing to work responsibly and ethically toward building a higher-quality, reliable compendium of human knowledge. Thus driving home the truth that Wikipedia is a massive online role-playing game, not an educational charity project. In a word, fraudulent.

WOW!

Then the fun begins, as we see how far the curve costs for technology THEN depart from theoretical need, under Sue's regime. Mark the gap "San Francisco sushi and parking."

What I like about Gardner is she clearly does not want to run an organization with a staff smaller than a 7/11 and a budget the size of an adult foster care home with six residents. There are of course many ways that she could build WMF into a significant organization, not the least is to staff it with people to address program and editorial needs. Her problem is that she would run into ideological roadblocks if she stood up and acted in a responsible manner. I think she needs representation on her board from the PRC. They are a quarter of humanity after all. Until then pass the sushi.

She needs to sustain her 1/2 mill each year..