Hi Dario,

The wording I was going to use was: "RCOM collectively was not consulted, though I don't know if any individual RCOM members were consulted about those questions."

That would have answered the original question, without us having to agree whether or not it would have been a good idea for us to be involved. There is already a lot of debate on the Foundation mailing list as to whether this was a referendum or a survey, and I doubt if it would be easy to get agreement on this list as to whether we should or should not have been involved. My view is that this was a survey that was broadcast to multiple Wikimedians via this site, so yes in hindsight it would have been preferable for us to be involved.

As for the second part, I think based on your comment "only as individual community members", do I need to reword that as  "RCOM collectively was not consulted, though individual RCOM members may have been."

Regards

WereSpielChequers

On 7 September 2011 01:16, Dario Taraborelli <dtaraborelli@wikimedia.org> wrote:
i.e. it's ok to let John know that this is a community consultation that is not of RCom competence

On Sep 6, 2011, at 5:15 PM, Dario Taraborelli wrote:

> I agree with Yaroslav, this doesn't sound like an area of interest for RCom – we were not solicited to participate as a committee, only as individual community members.
> I don't think we need to signal that we were not consulted unless any of you considers that we should have been.
>
> My 2 cents,
>
> Dario
>
> On Sep 6, 2011, at 1:27 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 6 Sep 2011 01:39:54 +0100, WereSpielChequers
>> <werespielchequers@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Many of you will be aware that there has been a bit of flak about the
>>> referendum/plebiscite/consultation about the image filter.
>>>
>>> John Vandenburg posted this
>>>
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-September/067889.htmlon
>>> the Foundation mailing list.
>>>
>>> Unless anyone has a better response to make, I'll post that RCOM
>>> collectively was not consulted, though I don't know if any individual
>> RCOM
>>> members were consulted about those questions.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> WereSpielChequers
>>
>> I agree, and I thinbk it is important to do it quickly, nobody would get
>> interested in a week. May be just to wait till RCom member in California
>> have a chance to read this message later in the (European) afternoon.
>>
>> Another question to discuss would be whether we should have been
>> consulted. I am not sure. This is not really research, this was supposed to
>> be a vote.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Yaroslav
>>
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