One of the basic tenets of health and safety, is that if you have a near miss incident, it
should be analysed the same way that a fatal incident would be investigated. Not to
apportion blame, even if it is due, but so that the same situation can be avoided in the
future. Organisations that fail to do this are doomed to repeat their mistakes, not
necessarily by the same people, who may well have learned, but often by other departments,
where the people did not get the opportunity to learn by the mistake. Refusal to answer
reasonable and legitimate questions by stakeholders often leads to accusations of
conspiracy and bad faith and can end in the local demagogues, of which we have an adequate
supply, inciting the torch and pitchfork brigade. Things may go downhill at this point.
Cheers,
Peter
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[mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W
Sent: Friday, 04 September 2015 8:43 AM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments in Italy largely
blocked by WMF fundraising
Yes, I think it is the case that Fundraising and other organizations (like the WLM
coordinators, Wikimedia Italia, and Community Resources / FDC) were working from different
playbooks. But now that Fundraising has agreed to change their plans, I think we should
give them some breathing room, especially because they say that banner scheduling will be
coordinated next year.
Pine
On Thu, Sep 3, 2015 at 11:24 PM, Peter Southwood < peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>
wrote:
Who set the targets that will now not be met, how were
they decided,
and when were they set? I must assume that WLM annual project was not
taken into consideration by these planners.
Cheers,
P
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From: wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:
wikimedia-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Pine W
Sent: Thursday, 03 September 2015 10:51 PM
To: Wikimedia Mailing List
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wiki Loves Monuments] Wiki Loves Monuments
in Italy largely blocked by WMF fundraising
I just want to respond to this point in particular:
"Postponing the Italian fundraising campaign means for the first time
in at least 4 years, the fundraising team will not be meeting a
target. The team will pick up extra work in October to make up for
work missed in September.
It's not possible to do two months of work in one month, so there will
need to be adjustments later throughout the year to make up for
missing the September target."
It was somewhat courageous for WMF Fundraising to change its schedule
and forecast missing a target as a result. Two quotes seem appropriate
in the context of this conversation, particularly regarding WMF's
taking the community's priorities into account and absorbing the risks
to its plans that come with changing to accommodate WLM:
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what
it takes to sit down and listen." -- Winston Churchill.
"Either you decide to stay in the shallow end of the pool or you go
out in the ocean." --Christopher Reeve
Thanks Megan and all.
Pine
On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 12:29 PM, Mathias Damour <
mathias.damour(a)laposte.net
wrote:
Le 31/08/2015 13:02, Megan Hernandez a écrit :
Postponing the Italian fundraising campaign means
for the first
time in at least 4 years, the fundraising team will not be meeting
a target. The team will pick up extra work in October to make up
for work missed in September.
It's not possible to do two months of work in one month, so there
will need to be adjustments later throughout the year to make up
for missing the September target.
The WMF team is without any doubt very professional in "meeting its
target" and in smooth communication.
We should also understand that despite the huge growth of the WMF
these last few years, it may feel an inferiority complex and think
it has a backlog to catch up compared to some much richer
neighbouring companies in the San Francisco Bay ! I guess they
roughly think: "Why should we have 15 time less employees than
Twitter !" That's why raising up the fundraising targets can be more
important than to facilitate a WLM event in just one not-so-big
country ! :-P
Nevertheless it still give the impression of taking the word-wide
donors, the volunteers and the other entities (chapters) for
pawns/chess pieces that you may move or stop whenever you want or need...
Maybe the ones to blame are the neighbouring internet companies for
setting a bad example to the WMF... :-\
--
Mathias Damour
[[User:Astirmays]]
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