QUOTE(thekohser @ Wed 20th January 2010, 10:43am)
Sue Gardner has
posted the new Five-Year Plan.
BayNewser
sums it up as follows:
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Wikimedia Not Going to Invest in China, Africa, Paid Editors
And my comment there:
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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.
Sue's five-year plan, strategery in motion
thekohser Sue's five-year plan 
