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.

[Kelly Martin]

It's very clear that the Foundation considers its most important metrics to be readership of and participation in the English Wikipedia, and it plans to focus all of its attention on increasing both of these numbers. This is, no doubt, because doing this will do more to increase donations than just about anything else they do.

It is clear that there is no interest in improving quality, and in fact they probably realize that quality measures will both reduce drama (which will reduce press attention and thus donations) and reduce participation (which will also reduce donations). So expect more of the same, and nothing new, from the WMF.