#Petition: Editors willing to join in collective labor action
I’m out of the loop. What is this about?
This is new; just check the link.
I’m increasingly getting the impression that WMF is very self-centred, disconnected from the practical reality of wiki editors and readers (much of its staff doesn’t even have experience with wiki editing!). There are some notable exceptions but the overall picture is not good…
In fact a lot of community technical-focused volunteers don’t do a lot of editing either. All Anomie of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:AnomieBOT has done is update list tables and sales figures and ze is a highly respected technical editor who, besides the bot and bot approvals, just does a lot of anchor maintenance.
I don’t think it’s bad that WMF employees don’t have experience editing, as that’s a very different skillset from WMF’s software development, infrastructure, and fundraising missions, but I do agree the lack of community communication is concerning. And thing is, things were pretty great under the last CEO, who announced a timeline of departure last May.
