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.

[Jon Awbrey]

Wut!? — No benchmarks for the wheat harvest?

Jon (IMG:smilys0b23ax56/default/dizzy.gif)

[Milton Roe]

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."

[GlassBeadGame]

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.

[Milton Roe]

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.

[GlassBeadGame]

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.

I have no love lost for the PRC. I would find very amusing a board discussion in which community types explain how flagged revisions is difficult to implement to people who bulldoze monasteries or run over people with tanks.