Traditionally, as you know, the noticeboard is mainly for posting announcements, and we don’t post comments unless we need to clarify/have questions to the original announcement.
If you add one line like “Hey, can someone re-post this at the Village Pump and ask for feedback?”, someone would re-post your announcement at the Village Pump where people are more accustomed to expressing their opinions.
Huh. My bad! I posted on Wikipedia:お知らせ because it’s linked from Distribution list/Global message delivery, which is a list of Village Pumps for most wikis, but not Japanese Wikipedia! I didn’t check that there’s also Wikipedia:井戸端. So OK, I’ll reword my message, ask someone for translation, publish it on 井戸端, and we’ll talk there.
SGrabarczuk_WMF-san, I think that it is the community’s wish to keep IT-related announcements on お知らせ generally. I was suggesting to re-post only certain notices that require feedback on 井戸端(village pump). Also, announcements without replies on 井戸端 will be auto-archived after 7days while they will stay more than one or two month(s) on お知らせ, with or without replies. Let me ask Afaz-san, who is a veteran editor at jawiki.
We, jawiki, had a local Zoom meeting a day before yesterday and one of old-timer editors asked, “Why can’t we stay the same (keep the status quo)?”; and “Why do we have to change?”
Does anyone from the WMF have answers for those questions?
「ウィキメディア財団と、つながらないことで(=各ストラテジー、ミーティング、トークページでの議論、投票に参加しないこと)、何か困ることはありますか?」という根本的な質問がありました。バックグラウンド:私たちは既に様々なルールは守っています。この質問に関連し、寄付金の話題もありました。「資金調達 」、「ウィキメディア統計 」、「ウィキメディア運動と意思疎通の洞察/報告書」(Participants hate jargon, unnecessarily long texts, and “org-speak.” They want language that is simple, concise, relatable and translatable. Nobody ever intends to write things that are needlessly long or complicated, but sometimes we do face the temptation to over-explain when a situation seems complex or to be vague when we lack detailed information. This can backfire and create more distance between the Foundation and the rest of the movement.)
No. It’s more fundamental such as Movement Strategy and its initiatives; the UCoC; discussions on Meta; Hubs; communicating and/or attending meetings with the WMF and/or our regional friends etc.
These are very philosophical questions. My first thought when I read them was that everything changes, everything evolves, and those who are young one day will be old… But I guess the question is more practical.
Still, the answers probably are still philosophical. People want to change the status quo when they are not happy with it. Some people are not happy with how harassment is handled in Wikimedia and they work toward the implementation of the UCoC. Some people are not happy with how regional governance of the Wikimedia movement is organized, and they propose regionals hubs, and so on.
Some people are happy with the status quo and they wonder why it needs to be changed. The Movement Strategy offers a common direction to guide these changes and the reasons why we want to pursue them collectively.