In a message dated 3/17/2008 12:46:20 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, johnleemk@gmail.com writes:
is wholly insignificant compared to the real resource costs incurred from trying to figure out which "longstanding users" ought to be placed in the trial.>>
-------------- There is no *which*. All Wikipedians with standing of any sort, gauged using the most *open* method.
Libertarianism is all about equality and egalitarian standards. Any project which stands against (in contravention) of those policies should be treated as a project directly violating the core principles upon which our project was founded.
Will Johnson
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There is no *which*. All Wikipedians with standing of any sort, gauged using the most *open* method.
This is intended to be a small scale test. If you can think of another way of finding a couple of thousand experienced and trustworthy testers quickly and easily, speak up.
Will Johnson wrote:
Libertarianism is all about equality and egalitarian standards. Any project which stands against (in contravention) of those policies should be treated as a project directly violating the core principles upon which our project was founded.
Will, chill. This isn't that big a deal; in fact, it isn't a deal at all.
Tim Starling announced an experiment, which for expediency's sake it seemed like a good idea to limit to less than the full user population. It wasn't a policy statement or anything. Assuming Single User Signon works, we'll all get it some day.
Or not -- it's a very hard feature to implement; the devs have barely found time to work on it at all, let alone do the large amount of testing and controlled rollout that will be required to ensure that it works smoothly. If you'd rather Tim spend his time defending his experiment to the satisfaction of your hairtrigger Libertarian sensitivities, or cancel the experiment until it can be performed to your egalitarian satisfaction, we may never see the feature at all.
On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 4:48 PM, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
In a message dated 3/17/2008 12:46:20 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time, johnleemk@gmail.com writes:
is wholly insignificant compared to the real resource costs incurred from trying to figure out which "longstanding users" ought to be placed in the trial.>>
There is no *which*. All Wikipedians with standing of any sort, gauged using the most *open* method.
Libertarianism is all about equality and egalitarian standards. Any project which stands against (in contravention) of those policies should be treated as a project directly violating the core principles upon which our project was founded.
We're not a libertarian project. HTH HAND.
Johnleemk