2008/4/24 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
On 24/04/2008, michael west michawest@gmail.com wrote:
2008/4/24 Judson Dunn cohesion@sleepyhead.org:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Governance_reform
May be of interest to people.
Why is it not in en or simple? I think they are the must in these kind
or
things especially with something as fundamental (as I can understand)
as
this.
What do you mean? It's a proposal for the English Wikipedia and is on the English Wikipedia...
Forgive me - is this some kind of English phrased in a way many editors would not understand? or am I think/stupid?
*Wikipedia's traditional governance model has failed to scale adequately with the project's growth, and has become incapable of operating effectively in a project orders of magnitude larger than it was at the time the model was adopted.*
*Internally-motivated policy formation has effectively stagnated. The last major changes to the main body of policy--the BLP policy and the non-free content policy--were both essentially imposed from the outside, due to external pressure on the project. Major internally-driven policy proposals, such as the attribution policy, have failed to result in anything but the predictable "no consensus" outcome.*
*This is, in some sense, inevitable in a project with a perpetually open set of individuals available to participate. Policy debate becomes, in most cases, nothing more than an endurance contest between those who wish to effect some change and those who wish to retain the status quo; and, so long as those opposed to any proposal are sufficiently dedicated and sufficiently vocal, they can keep the debate going without any effective means being available to force a decision. The few attempts to do so by means of a general referendum have proven ineffective.*