2008/10/27 Amir E. Aharoni <amir.aharoni(a)gmail.com>om>:
3. Communities like their autonomy: I like the en.wiki
policies on
verifiability, notability, templates, userboxes, deletion discussion,
appointing admins, etc.; I find them logical and i wish that all
Wikipedias would adopt them. But some people who dislike certain
aspects of another project may consider it so important that they
would dislike the whole project because of that and wouldn't even want
to hear about its positive sides and learn from them. Hence, a lot of
wheel reinventing happens. So maybe the foundation could try to force
some global policies? Probably not: Since communities like their
autonomy and many editors would retire if policies would be stuck down
their throats.
The problem is that any cross project decision making process is going
to be dominated by en. Result is that projects insist on their
autonomy and build other walls against en which then makes
communication tricky.
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geni