On 3/21/07, Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net wrote:
On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 14:27:42 -0700, Jossi Fresco jossifresco@mac.com wrote:
That is why this is so painful to witness these claims of "it was not widely know".
I knew there was a discussion months ago, I had absolutely no idea - none at all - that it was still active, let alone about to replace the other policies. Where have I been all that time? In the usual places.
This was my impression as well. I didn't mind it, but it did suprise me.
Likely lesson: Wikipedia has exceeded process critical mass. We now have more things going on more quickly than the existing static process can adequately track and keep people aware of.
In a business, this sort of discovery triggers a round of executive and management soul-searching, followed by a painful round of process consultants, executive retreats, the creation of new business process management groups, a couple of new VPs, etc etc.