On 05/06/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 6/5/07 5:26 PM, David Gerard at dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/06/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
The archives of this List are FULL of suggestions for change (some actually workable ;-)). The question is how, and where, do we take those suggestions to be acted upon?
Good question. An idea has to be both convincing and inspiring to really take. The politics of large-scale volunteer collaboration ... you need to make people *want* to implement your idea.
But, as I understand it, we are not talking about the style, or other such changes, related to editing the content of the encyclopedia. But, rather, changes related to the very structure of its management.
Same there too. It's more work, of course. And it has to be a really good idea and you have to be really convincing with it. It's a process of herding cats.
- d.