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Sue Gardner has posted the new Five-Year Plan. BayNewser sums it up as follows: QUOTE Wikimedia Not Going to Invest in China, Africa, Paid Editors And my comment there: QUOTE 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.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 20th January 2010, 10:43am) Sue Gardner has posted the new Five-Year Plan. BayNewser sums it up as follows: QUOTE Wikimedia Not Going to Invest in China, Africa, Paid Editors And my comment there: QUOTE 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. The article was very good, especially in identifying what options where rejected. The odd thing about the plan is how divorced from budget it is. It is hard to see how a plan dominated by tech infrastructure can justify a budget in excess of 10 times what was spent prior to Gardner. After all the demand has only grown modestly and is leveling out, maybe even declining. Most technical challenges where met when the budget was at $300,000. Now at $10,000,000 they only have to update and maintain. Gardner is bringing WMF to a scale that could be used to seriously address programmatic and editorial issues. But she is not directing the funds in the right areas. Well at least there is a planning process that could be turned toward programmatic issues. Plus, I love the Stalinist ring to "Five Year Plan." That has got to piss off the Randoids.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 20th January 2010, 3:43pm) Sue Gardner has posted the new Five-Year Plan. BayNewser sums it up as follows: QUOTE Wikimedia Not Going to Invest in China, Africa, Paid Editors And my comment there: QUOTE 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. I wonder how long she worked on that and how much it cost.
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QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 20th January 2010, 8:56am) Wut!? — No benchmarks for the wheat harvest? Jon (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/dizzy.gif) No. A wonderful new plan to divert all of WMF's resouces to growing ... sugarcane! You know, in theory, with some data on server cost per power over the last decade, and the known chart of WMF article growth per year, it should in theory be possible to draw a curve with the correct SHAPE of WMF's actual expenditure need, if it was rational. Of course, such a curve would need to be scaled, so it could be adjusted for best fit to WMF's equipment costs from 2001 to 2007 or something. 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."
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QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 20th January 2010, 12:01pm) QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Wed 20th January 2010, 8:56am) Wut!? — No benchmarks for the wheat harvest? Jon (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/dizzy.gif) Mark the gap "San Francisco sushi and parking." Just guessing, but I think you'll find that more and more donation dollars are going into raising more and more donation dollars, in other words, PR. Anyone wanna buy a Golden Gate Bridgespan? Jon (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/dry.gif)
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QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Wed 20th January 2010, 10:55am) QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 20th January 2010, 12:01pm)
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 has Wing/Ting from Taiwan. Perhaps he might be induced to speak for PRC. (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/wink.gif) SRSLY, unless PRC lets WP actually legally INTO their country, I think they should get bubkis. Yes, HK, I know they are no different from the UK and probably better. It's just that they can be difficult when it comes to, well, basic freedoms. Probably my own bias.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 20th January 2010, 3:43pm) Sue Gardner has posted the new Five-Year Plan. BayNewser sums it up as follows: QUOTE Wikimedia Not Going to Invest in China, Africa, Paid Editors And my comment there: QUOTE 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! QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Wed 20th January 2010, 5:55pm) QUOTE(Milton Roe @ Wed 20th January 2010, 12:01pm)
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..
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QUOTE(A Horse With No Name @ Wed 20th January 2010, 5:10pm) QUOTE(GlassBeadGame @ Wed 20th January 2010, 11:06am) Plus, I love the Stalinist ring to "Five Year Plan." That has got to piss off the Randoids.
When she starts to suggest letting 100 flowers bloom, it is time to move the servers to Formosa! (IMG: smilys0b23ax56/default/rolleyes.gif) Five year plans are quite common in business. I would be somewhat disappointed with any major corporation that didn't have a long-term strategic plan with specific dated goals. To do otherwise would rob the management of accountability for meeting those goals.
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Sue Gardner said: QUOTE We've interviewed 65 people, including Board and Advisory Board members, staff, editors, onlookers, critics, supporters, and external subject-matter-experts... I looked over the list of people interviewed, and I failed to see one "critic" of the Wikimedia Foundation. (Could someone help me if you do see one?) So, I asked on the Discussion page, if someone could enlighten us as to which "critics" were interviewed. Philippe's two-step response: QUOTE 18:03, 20 January 2010 Critics? Which one(s)? Philippe (WMF) (Talk | contribs) Deleted (content was: 'The letter says that "critics" were engaged or interviewed by the Foundation strategy project. I'd like to know which one(s) in particular. Considering ho...' (and the only contributor was 'Thekohser2')) ( link) QUOTE 17:40, 20 January 2010 Philippe (WMF) (Talk | contribs) blocked Thekohser2 (Talk | contribs) with an expiry time of infinite (account creation disabled, e-mail blocked) ‎ ( link) Someone needs to slap that little man-boy Philippe across the face. Has it really come to the point that simply asking which critic(s) were engaged or interviewed by the Foundation strategy project is a censored and blockable offense? I hereby call on every Wikimedian in good standing to go to that Discussion page, and ask the same question, until it is answered.
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 21st January 2010, 4:41pm) QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 21st January 2010, 12:41pm) I hereby call on every Wikimedian in good standing to go to that Discussion page, and ask the same question, until it is answered. I guess this is the part where WR ignores me, too. It's their board, Greg. The more you act like it might have been legit, the more credibility you lend it. Your time were better spent writing another exposé on Akahele. Jon (IMG: http://wikipediareview.com/stimg9x0b4fsr2/1/folder_post_icons/icon9.gif)
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QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Thu 21st January 2010, 5:00pm) It's their board, Greg. The more you act like it might have been legit, the more credibility you lend it. Your time were better spent writing another exposé on Akahele. Jon (IMG: http://wikipediareview.com/stimg9x0b4fsr2/1/folder_post_icons/icon9.gif) Yeah, in a way, you're right, Jonny. Akahele's still getting, oh, a good 15 page views a day... though that's down from our glory days of 65 or 70 per day. Anyway, it looks like someone has my back here. Thanks, "whoever you are".
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QUOTE(thekohser @ Thu 21st January 2010, 11:49pm) QUOTE(Jon Awbrey @ Thu 21st January 2010, 5:00pm) It's their board, Greg. The more you act like it might have been legit, the more credibility you lend it. Your time were better spent writing another exposé on Akahele. Jon (IMG: http://wikipediareview.com/stimg9x0b4fsr2/1/folder_post_icons/icon9.gif) Yeah, in a way, you're right, Jonny. Akahele's still getting, oh, a good 15 page views a day … though that's down from our glory days of 65 or 70 per day. Anyway, it looks like someone has my back here. Thanks, "whoever you are". It's pretty clear that the whole Strategic Planning thing is just a cover for a lot of PR. Maybe that Bridgespan Group honestly thinks they're being called in to help improve things, but they wouldn't be the first to be suckered by that. Jon (IMG: http://wikipediareview.com/stimg9x0b4fsr2/1/folder_post_icons/icon9.gif)
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