Thread:Project:WikiProject Extensions/Ideas/Link within Extension to allow developers to solicit donations/reply (27)

I'll tell you what's wrong: I didn't know about it. There isn't any leadership, and thus organization (yet!). Every extension page should link back to the extensions project, with a directory of possible things that can be done to help, so everyone will find out what they can do when they discover a problem.

About SMW: That's where they'll SAY they're coming from, but really, it's something else. They'll throw a tantrum if I put a link to my user page documentation. They've even deleted things like that with no warning. I had to go find another admin to restore it for me.

In fact, I think you have it completely backwards. BACKWARDS BACKWARDS BACKWARDS. WMF-maintained documentation shouldn't be shuffled away with links to obscure user pages and subpages. Instead, that link should be for the offsite official documentation, and no more interference than that should be imposed on WMF-maintained documentation.

With that said, I don't give a poop what happens to it, until there is a policy in place that is in accordance with WMF's public mission, and the WMF is willing to use it to forcefully challenge anyone abusing it. I'm not convinced the WMF is even hearing me, and I'm not interested in being shat on as the sole challenger.

Honestly, I'm pretty spooked that you would suggest a higher priority be given to external interests, as a matter of principle. I understand who the developers are, and I understand that they do what they can to humiliate and isolate anyone that disagrees with them, or wishes to contribute in a manner they disapprove of.

Every time I have tried to contribute to their goals, they have reacted with provocative hostility. Why? I don't know. My best guess is they have commercial interests that I accidentally threatened with my interests in documentation writing. I don't have any problem with their commercial interests - I'm a capitalist pig, after all. But, I do have a problem with a business model that relies on alienation.

I'm not even sure that's what's going on - The best I can do is speculate, but the one thing that is certain, anyone who has tried to contribute in the spirit of public service has been greeted with teeth and claws, and I'm not the only one who has had that experience. So, the question is, what is WMF's mission? Is it to aid the suppression of documentation in favor of external private consultants, or WhateverTF it is that motivates all the arrogance and insolence?

If nothing changes, the answer is yes, and you can find me over at my user page, far away from these kinds of problems. I do not come here to be insulted, stress, or frustrated. I am not in a position to successfully challenge these kinds of problems, without the backing of the WMF.

That's it. That's all I've got to say. What do you think of that, Bawolff? Is this something you can change or have some influence in changing?