Wikipedia:Diskussionen mit WMF

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We invite you to discuss here. Please notice, that most native speakers of German understand English, but many are afraid to speak it, and even more to write in it. Because of this it would be better to talk here in German. If you have a problem with this, please contact: Hosse

Der Anfang

Ich hätte gerne, dass das "Superprotection"-Recht verschwindet. --Hosse Talk 01:29, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Ich hätte gerne, dass Belange, die die deutschsprachige Wikipedia massiv tangieren (das muss nicht jede Mini-Software-Änderung sein, aber jedenfalls Dinge, die auf starken Widerstand größerer Gruppen in der Community stoßen), hier in diesem Projekt und auf deutsch mit den Verantwortlichen diskutiert werden können. Insofern begrüße ich den Versuch dieser Seite. Ich habe den Eindruck, inzwischen sehen viele Foundation-Mitarbeite die Communitys nur noch als "Höhle des Löwen", in die sie sich am Besten gar nicht mehr hineinwagen. Deswegen hätte ich gerne, dass es echte "Community Advocates" in den Reihen der Foundation gibt, die sich um die Vermittlung zwischen Foundation und Community bemühen, die sich in den Communitys auch sehen lassen und von der Foundation nicht missbraucht werden, um kontroverse Entscheidungen durchzusetzen wie zuletzt. Gruß --Magiers (Diskussion) 10:22, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Ich würde erwarten, daß das superprotect right wieder entfernt wird und daß die Wikimedia Foundation die Interessen der langjährigen Autoren in einer angemessenen Weise würdigt und bei ihren Entscheidungen berücksichtigt. Ziel sollte sein, zu vermeiden, daß immer mehr Autoren inaktiv werden und das Projekt verlassen. Wikipedia ist kein Unternehmen und Wikipedia ist keine Ware. Es ist für viele der aktivsten unter uns zu einem wichtigen Teil ihres Lebens geworden. Das muß sich auf unsere Teilhabe an den Entscheidungsprozessen auswirken, denn ohne die Autoren wäre Wikipedia nicht zu dem geworden, was sie heute ist. Die WMF ist gerade dabei, Wikipedia, wie wir es kennen, abzuschaffen. Dagegen wende ich mich.--Aschmidt (Diskussion) 11:00, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Ich würde mir wünschen, dass diese Seite prominenter wird. --Felistoria (Diskussion) 00:03, 16. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
Im Forum auf Meta hatte ich sie schon verlinkt. --Winternacht 00:13, 16. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
Ich meinte prominenter hier;-) --Felistoria (Diskussion) 00:14, 16. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
Dort kann auch nicht schaden. ;) Dann setz mal ein paar Links irgendwohin. Zum Beispiel in den Kurier oder so, das sollte prominent sein. Ach so, in die Umfrage hatte ich auch schon einen Link gesetzt. :) --Winternacht 00:51, 16. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Ich würde mir überdies wünschen, dass hochbezahlte (und vermutlich sogar hochqualifizierte) Entwickler nicht von ihren Chefs angehalten werden, unfertige Software hochzuschalten, die dann nur Unmut erregt und ihnen womöglich so unfertig selbst nicht gefällt. Ich würde mir wünschen, dass solch eine Seite auch für einen normal befähigten Anwender verständlich geschrieben wird und der Knopf "Beta" in meiner Kopfleiste nicht zu gnadenlos lieblos gemachten Annoncen führt. --Felistoria (Diskussion) 00:45, 16. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Sowas geht gar nicht, sorry. Projektneuheiten sollten allgemeinverständlich formuliert werden. Danke Felistoria, dass Du darauf hingewiesen hast. --Hosse Talk 01:01, 16. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Was ist passiert?

Motivation

Ich würde gern erst einmal verstehen, was hier passiert ist und formuliere daher ein paar Thesen und Fragen. Anka Wau! 10:32, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Ausgangsthesen

  • In meinen Augen ist der Mediaviewer keine zentrale und wesentliche Softwarefunktion, die Wikipedia ist durch sein Funktionieren oder nicht Funktionieren in ihren Grundfesten in keiner Weise bedroht.
  • Es gibt in der Wikipedia etablierte Mechanismen zum Umgang mit Seitenveränderungen, die auf Einspruch stoßen.
  • Es war erkennbar, dass das Abschalten des MV nicht auf ungeteilte Zustimmung stieß (Revert).
  • Die Edits fanden unter deutlichem Zeitdruck statt.

Anka Wau! 10:32, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Offene Fragen

  • Warum wurden hier die etablierten Mechanismen des Editierens nicht genutzt?
  • Ist irgendein Weg gesucht worden, etablierte Mechanismen zu nutzen (Vandalismusmeldung, kurzzeitige Benutzersperren bei Editwar …), der für mich von außen nicht erkennbar ist? Warum ist der nicht transparent?
  • Was war der Grund für das Entstehen dieses Drucks, warum konnte nicht abgewartet werden, bis ein gemeinsamer Weg gefunden ist?
  • Was ist im Adminchat gelaufen? (Wie kam es zu dem Kick-Ban? Warum war Erik dort?)
  • Ist Superprotect vorbereitet worden um für genau diesen Fall vorbereitet zu sein?
    • Wenn ja, wurden außerdem beim Erwägen der Möglichkeiten einer Reaktion auf einen solchen Fall Wege auf der Basis bestehender Regelungen gesucht?

Anka Wau! 10:32, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Zum Pudels Kern

Ich denke wir könnten den MediaViewer allmählich als einen Kollateralschaden eines weitaus wichtigeren Problems betrachten und eben zu diesem Kernproblem kommen. Und der ist: mit der WMF müsste dringend festgeklopft werden, wer für welche lokale Entscheidungen einzelner Projekte zuständig ist. Wir stehen nicht weit weg von der Situation entfernt, dass die WMF beispielsweise hier in der deWP gewählte Admins nicht akzeptiert und ihnen einen Status "adminprotect" verpasst, so dass sie die Rechte nicht bekommen. Die mit unserem Geld (gespendet wird für Artikel, nicht für Bildfilter und Viewer) bezahlten Funktionäre sollten sehr deutlich hierzu Stellung nehmen, und zwar dringend. -jkbx- siehe -jkb- 14:32, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

+1, aber so was von... --Hosse Talk 14:46, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
Stimmt. Tatsächlich ist der MV nur einer von einer Reihe von Kollateralschäden, und jedes Mal hat man versprochen, man hätte nun verstanden, doch gewinnt man immer mehr den Eindruck, daß dem nicht so ist, sondern das Gegenteil der Fall. --Matthiasb – Vandale am Werk™ (CallMyCenter) 19:00, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
+1 --Gruß Tom (Diskussion) 08:51, 14. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
+/-0. Gespendet wird für das ganze Projekt, Artikel, Metaseiten, Software, Infrastruktur, das alles zusammen ist Wikipedia. Ansonsten Zustimming, der Kern der Sache ist die Frage nach den Entscheidungskompetenzen. --PM3 19:29, 17. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Live-Diskussion

ist in Planung: WP:BÄR#SuperTalk - mach mit!

Diskussion in englischer Sprache (English language section)

Software, not editing

Hi all -- SO SORRY this is in English. I wanted to make sure we are not making this file protection more than it is. We need a better process around change management and improving features. Our choices were to roll-back everywhere (and it is currently on all wikis and only de/en have been complaining) or to move forward and incorporate your feedback. Removing software for everyone seems a bit drastic. So if we can keep from trying to rip out features and focus on how we best improve them for everyone -- it would be great. Remember, MV has been in Beta since November 2013. But because someone removed the link (same problem with change management) -- the German community did not get as involved nearly as much as needed. Also, remember that "consensus" on a feature serving millions has to involve readers, and have at least 5,000 to be statistically representative. We just need to be productive here. And again, sorry for the English. -- LilaTretikov (Diskussion) 20:04, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

I do think we need to improve our process for validating features, and much earlier in the cycle, pre-rollout, so community members can be better represented in the decision. I don't think voting after roll-out is a good practice -- it really lands itself for situations like this one and working in that way consumes lots of money and resources. By then we have the software in place and it is much more expensive to change or modify and much more damaging to the overall consistency of user experience. -- LilaTretikov (Diskussion) 18:41, 17. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
It is not about sofware it is about an inaceptable interference of the WMF to the rights of a community. If you would look at your own polls () you can see that even germanspeaking readers are not fond of the MV, by the way. It is a harsh break against wikipedia´s historic growne and successful culture to create quickly new rights for WMF staff and block sites in special communities. A agree totally with Magiers statement on your Disk on Meta. Don´t underestimate what is going on here since 4 days. That would be a terrible mistake. --Gleiberg (Diskussion) 20:18, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST) PS: Nothing to add to this excellent explanation of the situation
As I said elsewhere: the German WP community (and according to my knowledge neither the English WP community) is not opposed to the Media Viewer (from now on MV) from a fundamental POV against all new but it is against it because of we (they) think it is in a condition which does not allow default roll out for all. See, for instance, a MV in which the user can't zoom into the image is all but a MV. There are other reasons, and you (the devs and the project managers at the WMF) have been told about them, but this specific discussion here is not about the MV (and it is not really about the other bunch of unready software features which had been rolled out for the last five years, beginning with the actual Skin, the Vector skin, the AFT, the visual editor and so on). It is about how all the time the WMF tells us: oh, we understood now, next time we'll try better. Well, indeed you'll have to try better than just that.
But mainly it is about the outrage Erik's and Jan's wheelwarring and the introduction of the superprotect right has caused. There is a bunch of measures the community in this language version has worked out if sysops are doing wrongly, beginning with talking about it at Wikipedia:Administratoren/Notizen, going to Wikipedia:Administratoren/Probleme, and eventually start a deadministration request, and I have no doubts a solution could've been discussed and finalized, at least both of the WMF staff involved speak native German so there even was no place for Google translate misunderstandings. A problem resolving path Erik Möller -> Tim Starling is not an accepted path resolving problems, and as it has shown it isn't a successful path how to resolve a problem at all.
As said Gleiberg. Don't underestimate the outrage in the DE:WP community right now. But be aware that just more promises that the communication was bad and should be improved won't fix it. There really have to be efforts – effactual efforts – to reach better communications, and I am not sure if burning the community advocate in this conflict was a wise idea. Actually it was a very bad idea to involve Jan in this mess. --Matthiasb – Vandale am Werk™ (CallMyCenter) 20:51, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
Hiyas Lila and thanks a lot for responding to the issue directly and personally in the German Wikipedia... welcome to our crazy litte community btw ;). Anyways, you asked for the feedback of an statistically representive amount of readers, well, any editor is also a reader, with the difference that without the editors Wikipedia would have never been able to become a success, so yeah, there was a vote on the german wikipedia and most of the votees casted their vote for the "Opt-In"-option meaning that generally, the media viewer isn't opposed, but the editors (who are also readers) want to have a choice if they activate it or not. Traditionally, most people here who contribute don't really appreciate if addons like media viewer, visual editor, changes of default-skin.. well, user:Matthiasb mentioned more above... get installed by what we call "par ordre de mufti" (you could translate that as "as wished by those above"). I mean, we don't ask you guys at WMF for our permission to upgrade/update stuff or install addons, but we expect to be taken serious, and with actions like what happened a couple of days ago, the trust that local editors have in certain people at WMF diminished... again, as we don't appreciate to be treated like little kids and a community advocat (who if you look at the name should be trusted by the community) gets (ab-)used by a Deputy Director as a tool to fulfill his wish (at least that is how it looked like for us here). So yeah, even though the removal of MV would be drastic (as drastic as rolling it out without communicating with those that create, administer and protect those contents we got here in a proper way), my wish would be that the communication between "you guys in Frisco" and the busy bees here would improve. And kudos for coming here yourself to talk with and not only to us. --Odeesi talk to me rate me 21:29, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
Opt-in is a good practice going forward. I think it would be good to have all larger features prompt users for opt-in for a while. This is a standard practice on large sites. We need to do this (and ensure that the Beta button is not removed) with next roll-outs. With MV it is already live across 800 sites and we rolled it out starting in April, we should fix the issues at this point so the de editors feel that their issues are resolved. We are working on this and you will see our User Experience team reaching out for you to test. Please participate. -- LilaTretikov (Diskussion) 18:47, 17. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
Thank you, Lila. That is the first official message that sounds a bit compromising to me. (sorry if there were others before, that I missed?) When will you operate the switching to "Opt-in" that we have been asking for so long now? And where can we "participate" like you say? --Trofobi[Grundprinzipien: gelöscht] 19:35, 17. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
@Trofobi: You probably did not mean 'comprimising' (kompromittierend), and I think you misunderstood Lila: She announced to use opt-in for the next (future) rollouts, which excludes MV which is already rolled out. --PM3 19:41, 17. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
See http://www.dict.cc/englisch-deutsch/compromise.html, not wrong but perhaps "willing to compromise" is better? --Trofobi[Grundprinzipien: gelöscht] 20:53, 17. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
If it's about readers: There was a survey, in which the users of MV were asked how they liked the new feature. Around two of three disapproved the MV. If readers really matter, that should have been enough to deactivate the feature in the German Wikipedia and to review it and restart. The Meinungsbild shouldn't even be needed. --Don-kun Diskussion 21:44, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
Thank you for replying here, Lila. You are right, we (WMF and Community) need a better software delivery process. Today someone has switched the Beta menu item in de:wp on again, so it is displayed next to the Personal Watchlist. So far I have not considered beta testing a key task for myself, that menu item may be placed a little bit too prominent up there. I can understand why it had been switched off. If you or someone else had communicated about having to rollback everywhere etc. (although I do not understand why) we would have probably found a solution both sides could accept. Now some authors are quite upset, a "diplomatic" solution has become more difficult. --Blech (Diskussion) 21:49, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)
I think the Beta Link itself, is helpfull, but there must be something that says "there is a new beta feature", probably similar like Echo. Without this, a User like looks once at this page and forgets the page, if there was no feature, which he finds interessting. With a message about a new feature, the user knows that there is a new Feature, and revisits the page. --Patrick Stützel (Diskussion) 22:07, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Lila, I dont´t suppose asking you a quite direct question: Have you been informed ahead of implementation and programming of the superprotect rights and for which particular reason it will be used in de:WP? If you´ve been asked before, why did you agree and on the basis of which arguments by the devs? If you haven´t been, so why was it declared to be an action on behalf of WMF which is your´s? NB Erik is very much experienced with all the problems we try to express here, we quite regularly have to observe these kind of actions from him (but up to now not in a central question like this) and he must have foreseen this reaction. In contrast you are a newcomer to the community and should be able to rely on your staff´s advice. For me it´s a bit spooky that this foreseeable mess will happen just after you succeed a person, installing Erik as VD and promoting his offence giving actions. --Gleiberg (Diskussion) 22:38, 13. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Dear Lila. Thank you for joining the discussion here. (As you would know, and just for other readers joining up here, i already have remarked upon several critical points on your own talkpage on meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:LilaTretikov as well all as on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Phoebe, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Raystorm, https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:Eloquence). Regarding your statement above,
Our choices were to roll-back everywhere (and it is currently on all wikis and only de/en have been complaining) or to move forward and incorporate your feedback.
I find this quite irritating. Maybe, as also Gleiberg speculates above, you have been misinformed from the start? There were not at all merely those 2 options. Instead, there was a bug report, giving way to another option, but it has been closed against all rationale and especially against a fundamental principle:
Any changes to the software must be gradual and reversible. We need to make sure that any changes contribute positively to the community, as ultimately determined by the Wikimedia Foundation, in full consultation with the community consensus.
Additionaly, those 3 options did not at all imply that your employees totally fall out of line, violate basic principles regarding how user rights are distributed, and also basic principles how to communicate:
Anyone with a complaint should be treated with the utmost respect and dignity. They should be encouraged constantly to present their problems in a constructive way. Anyone who just complains without foundation, refusing to join the discussion, should simply be rejected and ignored. Consensus is a partnership between interested parties working positively for a common goal. We must not let the "squeaky wheel" be greased just for being a jerk.
What your employees did, is: They refused to join the discussion, they decreed their ignorance of local and binding community consensus regarding lots of well-based complaints (for which, see also, among many other places, our input here), they completely overstepped the line when they threatened to revoke admin rights - explicitly and unheard-of labeling this as "an WMF action" without any agreed-upon basis - and unspecified "permissions", and lastly, when they without any precedent one-sidedly established a new user hierarchy.
Regarding your remark
"the German community did not get as involved nearly as much as needed"
i have adressed elsewhere why this is completely misleading. ca$e 13:33, 14. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Ich möchte das jetzt lupenrein übersetzt sehen in meine Muttersprache. Dankeschön. Lila muss sich das oben und unten ja auch übersetzen lassen. --Felistoria (Diskussion) 00:56, 16. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

WP:SM ;) ca$e 09:57, 16. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Lila sagt: Our choices were to roll-back everywhere (and it is currently on all wikis and only de/en have been complaining) or to move forward and incorporate your feedback. = Wir hatten die Wahl, das Feature überall zurückzurollen (es ist derzeit auf allen Wikis aktiv und nur de und en haben sich beschwert) oder weiterzumachen und Euer Feedback einzubeziehen.

Kommentar: Warum? Warum hattet Ihr nur diese Wahl? Abgesehen davon, dass es nicht stimmt (auch Commons war dagegen), wäre es weitaus einfacher gewesen, es auf de und en default ausgeschaltet zu lassen und sich in diesem Zustand um die zahlreichen Probleme des Mediaviewers zu kümmern. Es gibt keinerlei Grund, das "überall zurückzurollen. = Comment: Why? Why should you only have these choices? Not only is this incorrect (Commons was also against), it would have been much more simple to keep it switched off on en and de and tackle the numerous problems of the Media Viewer in this state. There is absolutely no reaseon to "roll back everywhere".--Mautpreller (Diskussion) 20:38, 19. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

Deadlocked situation (festgefahrene Situation)

Deutsche Übersetzung (German translation): Wikipedia Diskussion:Diskussionen mit WMF#Festgefahrene Situation (deadlocked situation). Hier bitte nur auf Englisch antworten, danke. Only English answers here please, thanks.

@LilaTretikov and all: I have been watching this issue since it started on August 10, and all the time I saw to parties – the Wikimedia Foundation on the one hand, and the majority of the dewiki authors on the other – who mistrust each other. Both think that the other one is not capable of making the right decisions on the software user interface, so both would like to control this issue on their own as far as possible. We have a power play on user interface control, which has dramatically escalated during the past weeks and resulted in a deadlock. WMF now says: We won't give up superprotect unless we are sure that no more software features will be disabled. The majority of the local community says: We won't make any concessions, as long as you insist in superprotecting. On this discussion page, I see virtually no-one[1] who is ready to move just a millimeter. This won't work out.

This situation cannot be ridden out, because it is damaging the German-language Wikipedia in a way which threatens the whole project. dewiki is bleeding now, it is losing top-notch administrators and authors on this issue, and if not solved, there is a substancial probability that this conflict will ultimately split dewiki in two (forks). My impression is that WMF vastly underestimates this problem and its implications.

How to move on?

This mistrust of parts of the German-speaking community in WMF (and maybe also vice versa, I can't estimate that) is not just a matter of Media Viewer. It has built up over time; the current conflict is just a symptom of this. Otherwise the MV would not be such a big issue. This is a fundamental problem, and I think it will need time and patience to get solved. (Mediation by a third party might be a good idea to start with.) We can't wait for that to happen now, there is too much at risk.

As a quick solution, I suggest to negotiate a compromise. This means that both sides need to give up something, for the benefit of our common goal, making and keeping up the best encyclopedia on earth. We need to refocus on writing articles and improving software instead of powerplaying. My proposal goes as follows:

  • Usage of superprotection will be suspended for the upcoming six months. Definitely and completely, no matter what happens during this time. Also, WMF staff members will not engage in any dewiki wheel-wars during this period.
  • The implementation of the Media Viewer poll will be suspended for the upcoming three months and then be done in a proper way. In no way it will be completely disabled; if someone tries that, the community will make sure that he or she gets prevented from doing so.

So there will three more months which the communty will live with Media Viewer as default, and three months which WMF will live without Media Viewer as default. (This may be a bit confusing for non-logged-in users, but that's their contribution to this compromise.) During the first three months, developers may improve the MV opt-in function, so when it gets default-disabled, it will be just one easy and obvious click for the users to permanently re-enable it. During the whole six months, improvements can be implemented so that the MV may become acceptable for the community as a default.

Decisions on this compromise will be made by the WMF board and by another dewiki community poll, and if both agree, it will be implemented.

The six months should also be used by both parties to get engaged in personal discussions on the matter of control of software development, trying to find a new accepted practice after the old one ( No 4) apparently has been canceled by both. How to move on after six months will have to be determined, it shall not be considered now. We shall go into discussions open-mindend and without predefined claims, keeping in mind our common goal.

  1. Update after finishing this post: there is at least one now in the German discussion below.

--PM3 07:04, 17. Aug. 2014 (CEST)

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