On 10/31/2011 11:04 AM, David Levy wrote:
Erik Moeller wrote:
As a matter of general practice, the Wikimedia
Foundation aims to be
responsive to the community both before and after the deployment of
software, but it doesn't obtain community consensus before deploying
software which it would like to deploy on its sites and services, nor
does it necessarily write or deploy software changes if a consensus to
do so exists.
Brandon Harris explicitly stated that "the policy for
deployment of
the tool is that it is by request only, and the requesting wiki must
... show community consensus."
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-October/070062.html
That leaves three possibilities:
A) Community consensus was demonstrated at the English Wikipedia.
B) The WikiLove deployment policy was violated.
C) The above statement by Brandon Harris is incorrect.
If I understand correctly,
the English Wikipedia is the main test
deployment for this as an experimental feature. While the feature
remains experimental, additional deployments to other wikis would only
happen if requested by community consensus. At some level, it would not
make sense to insist that consensus is required prior to conducting any
experiment, as that effectively defeats the ability to experiment.
--Michael Snow