On 27/10/2007, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
Gregory Maxwell wrote:
After a one month period, on December 9th, we will re-evaluate this decision using previously established methods [...]
Who is "we"? The Gregory Maxwell committee? Obviously it wasn't a Board decision, if Florence knows nothing about it. And if it was an executive decision, why isn't it being announced by Sue, or one of the staff?
This "experiment" needed to be concluded by someone and it seems that the board haven't taken any steps in this direction. Two options when it comes to concluding this experiment are declaring it a success and making it permanent or declaring it failure and ending the ban. Since the motivation for the trial was PR and since the ban has probably done more net harm than good, I welcome Gregory Maxwell's initiative.