[WikiEN-l] Anthere - "take decisions yourselves" - yes please!

[Jimmy Wales]

doc wrote:
> Ending the instruction creep is simple - switch it on for all 
> auto-confirmed users. Or, alternatively, allow all users a preference to 
> switch it on or off for themselves.

I would support either of those alternatives... or the one that has been 
forced on us by the current design of the feature, in which we have to 
create and maintain and enforce a policy about who gets it or not.  I 
would support the second option if that is the will of the community, 
whereas I am getting the feeling that it is not.

But I do not support that this sort of feature, which is clearly not 
unanimously wanted at all, should be decided by the developers or the 
Foundation (Anthere) rather than the community.

JeLuF did the right thing, given the limited knowledge that he had. 
He's a good guy and I am highly confident he has no interest at all in 
usurping the traditional decisionmaking processes of English Wikipedia. 
  He saw a poll, it looked like a solid majority, and he assumed that 
meant he was supposed to carry out the will of the community.  Not a 
problem there, except...

The English Wikipedia has traditionally had better ways of making 
decisions than voting.

So, that's what we're going to do.  The only problem at the moment is 
that there seem to be about a half-dozen different similarly named pages 
which purport to be a discussion or poll about this, and there is not 
the simple clarity that we need in order to be able to move forward 
rationally.  This will surely be cleared up soon.


--Jimbo