User:Amgine/Response/v2 (Amginacked)

Lede: One or two sentences. (State your primary theme, this one is my impression of what your theme really is.)

MediaWiki's constant evolution is measured, rightly or wrongly, against the resulting changes to content development. At times the software's development has been community driven, some times it responds to outside influences, and of late much innovation has been initiated solely from the Foundation, but very little has directly altered the rate or quality of content development.

past, present (about the right length, but of course needs to be rewritten)

The Foundation, while occasionally referencing the mission to make the sum of all human knowledge freely available, has often focused on more-easily measured successes such as the number of editors involved with the projects. Instead of improving the MediaWiki software for the existing population as a method of maintaining their involvement, the Foundation has poured resources into attracting new contributors

There are patterns to be observed among the notable failed efforts: long development times, lack of community instigation/involvement, and failure to plan for abuse are common characteristics. And perhaps, in line with the focus on constantly losing the community's history as its membership turns over rapidly, the Foundation itself has problems with institutional memory and does not take lessons from its feature fiascoes.

future

Complaining about the past, or the current status, does nothing. What we can do is work on the future:


 * 1) Primary infrastructure change needed
 * 2) Primary community/communication change needed
 * 3) Method by which each of the above can/will be measured

Describe briefly but specifically up to 3 changes which are about to be implemented. How they fit into the two changes above, and how the measurement affects them.

Reiterate that problems exist, we can resolve/mitigate them, and this is Wikipedia/Wikimeda movement.