On 8 Oct 2006, at 21:32, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
Stephen Streater wrote
If this project becomes boring, interesting people won't contribute.
There is a general distrust of dynamism, and this is a cultural flaw here which I am happy to do my bit to neutralise.
There is something to this. We still need 'be bold!'. There are probably still substantial areas of content to open up, and the pioneers need something less plodding than just mumbling policy as a mantra.
I'd like something along the lines of: an editor should expect to come across the existence of one existing policy or guideline for the first time every 100 or so edits.
If we have too steep or long a learning curve - by for example needing to know fifty pages of policy, guidelines and process to get started - content people will be put off at the expense of process people. It's easy for long timers to forget that the system was much simpler when they joined.