On 4/5/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Kirill Lokshin wrote:
But the key issue, I think, is simply this: prescriptive collaboration models do not, as a general rule, work on Wikipedia. The vast
Prescriptive collaboration is an oxymoron.
This is a total load of bollocks. There is nothing remotely wrong with prescribing guidelines for collaboration, with setting up frameworks for colloboration or with specifying what the priorities for collaborations are.
A WikiProject is a "prescriptive collaboration". A "collaboration of the week" is by definition a prescripitive collaboration. Even a backlog of maintenance tasks is effectively the same thing.
What's with all this baseless negativity towards a very workable, useful suggestion?
Steve