User talk:Carrite/Sicore interview 141009

A note on the quotation of my statement
Thanks for summarising the IRC office hour and for re-posting the text here. The new page has been mentioned on German Wikipedia.

I just would like to add that my statement before I left the channel was not cited in the logfile in full. I do not know whether my Adium truncated the line, so I would like to quote it in full according to my log. It read:


 * over the past hour i have read a lot of kidding by the way, i have read a lot about mozilla as it was, but nothing has really touched the questions that matter to the community. sorry to say that. not even the serious question asked by pajz has been addressed adequately. we have read and edited wikipedia since 2001. this hour was about what the WMF intends to change or not, and i'm afraid we have not heard anything consistent and new in this respect. good night to you all.

Damon did not respond to that. Indeed, unfortunately he left the channel even without saying goodbye properly. However, Damon referred to an earlier remark of mine. I then elaborated on my impression of the IRC hour and left the channel because it was 11 p.m. local time. The term 'kidding' referred to the somewhat chaotic course of the hour which was rather hard to follow for non-native English speakers, as Ziko also had pointed out at some point. I did not mean to say that Damon was kidding.

I think the major point of controversy between the WMF and the community nowadays is that at least the German editors usually do not contribute to Wikipedia because it is a 'top-5 website'. We are not at all interested in that. We are only interested in quality, not something like the Alexa or the Google rank of the website. It is a feature of nonprofit organisations that such things do not matter. As long as the WMF does not understand this we won't get along.--Aschmidt (talk) 18:55, 10 October 2014 (UTC)