On 9/11/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
God I wish we had a specifications document somewhere so we could argue meaningfully over what we actually want or don't want. So far there seem to be a few different conceptions of what the community has asked for and what is actually going to be delivered.
At the same time enwp was allowing a few vocal voices to push back against anything like this proposal the powers that be in German Wikipedia were aggressively pushing it forward. It's due to their effort that we have anything coded at all at this point.
As such representatives from that community got to give a lot of the input that you wish to have had. Thems the breaks.
Fortunately, the Germans have solid judgement and certainly appear to have a more internally consistent vision than the EnWp community. So their greater influence on the design may turn out to be a win for English as well.