On 10/07/2014, Brion Vibber <bvibber(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Perhaps it's time to stop calling self-selected
surveys of a tiny subset of
our user base "community consensus".
The vast majority of our user base never logs in, never edits, and never
even hears about these RfC pages. Those are the people we're making an
encyclopedia for.
Whole heartedly agree that this is a known and recognized limitation
of the RfC process, apart from where we are talking about Wikimedia
Commons, not the English Wikipedia. Of course it does not invalidate
the RfC as a survey of users that do log in, edit and hear about RfC
pages.
Was there a report from a survey that supported having a MediaViewer
specified as rolled-out and better represents the majority "user base"
rather than the volunteer community of contributors?
Fae
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