Ray Saintonge wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
That's a matter of wording. GM proposed this using the language of statement (an effective technique to get things done). Ultimately, if enough are/were opposed to the proposal, it wouldn't be carried out.
Sometimes wording is important. Wikipedia always requires positive consensus, not negative. If we can't agree on something, we stick with the status quo. GM's email is worded as if he intends this to work the other way around, and he has no authority to decide that.
The fact is that it takes more than a consensus to get things done. If there is a general and obvious consensus to do something, and nobody accepts the responsibility to act upon that consensus, then the consensus might just as well have been to do nothing.
The obvious next step, after consensus is achieved, is to file a bug report, then find a sysadmin to fulfill the request for you. This is a simple configuration change, we just need a bugzilla request for tracking plus a demonstration of rough consensus.
-- Tim Starling