Episode 47: Interview w/Erik Moeller

An interview with Erik Moeller, deputy director of the Wikimedia Foundation.

Panel:

Fuzheado

Liam Wyatt

Private Musings

Messedrocker

Raul654

We welcome help recording exact time codes for the following topics.

Topics:

Board makeup

New WMF blog

Assume good faith and transparency

Volunteer database

Staff and community

Availability of board minutes and transparency

GFDL, Free Software Foundation, CC-BY-SA

Method of switching license

Challenges

Decreasing rate of production

Experts and Everything2

How did Erik discover Wikipedia

Paypal and Infoanarchy

Developer bounties

Jalt – jealousy altruism

Omegawiki, Open Progress Institute

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3 Comments »

1. Warning bells. Authoritarial. Wikimarkup is not easily understood ? Presumably the millions of editors that built Wikipedia worked some of it out at some point. Do I detect someone trying to suggest that the time is over for the Pipedream of the “anarchic” operation of WP? That it’s time for Wikpedia to “grow up” when it has already matured into something quite adult IMO. There’s that word again … “mature”. At least he mentions the companies who aren’t with us now, that said that WP could not survive without advertising.

   I appreciate some of Erik Moelle ideas but I fear things are cascading towards a Cathedral Model. I could be wrong, it may be just my own fears speaking ! But I think there is still a tendency for 1. “Experts” to take control saying that they are being beneficial … 2. Users to become subjugated to those experts because “they know best”. It’s a sort of insidious drip drip effect. Are there enough people involved in the debate ? Why am I the only comment here? Maybe I’m missing where the discussion is ?

   DJ Barney

   Comment by DJ Barney — April 27, 2008 @ 6:53 pm

2. Between Erik’s mumbly speaking and the mp3 compression, I could only understand half of what he was saying

   Comment by Kaldari — April 28, 2008 @ 10:02 pm

3. Hoi,
   Open Progress is a “Stichting” which is closer to a foundation then an institute.
   Thanks,
   GerardM

   Comment by GerardM — April 30, 2008 @ 1:31 am

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