It's a long, weird braindump from a director of engineering (how many of these guys do they have) that answers no questions that are asked on that page.
At some point, wouldn't you WMF devs like to deliver something that your customers actually want?
I can't imagine that morale if very high inside if you have anybody who takes pride in their work.
I wonder about this talk
http://www.northeastphp.org/talks/view/ ... -Wikipedia
Should be a doozy.The goal of Features Engineering is to reverse that editor trend. This talk covers 10 concepts in the modern web that Wikipedia is leveraging to reverse the decline.