>Trying to press a en.wp policy(especially one as broad and controversial as WP:NOT) on anyone else is foolish and likely to be resisted.
Pete, I disagree with you especially in a case that a local project
try to omit key concepts such as Consensus Policy. WP:NOT#DEMO and
WP:NOTLAW are generally approved by broad members and these items
define well the basic behavior of community decision making and
treatment of rules of Wikipedia, based on Consensus. I rather feel it
foolish to eliminate these stuff if someone in the local already
notice the importance.
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For the committee,
Philippe
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Hi,
The last time, I asked a question how to share WP:NOT idea among WP
local projects.
I really appreciate lots of informative feed backs.
According to your replies, I confirmed that basically, officially,
only requirement is that they follow the founding principles
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Founding_principles.
1. Neutral point of view as a guiding editorial principle,
2. The ability of anyone to edit (most) articles without registration,
3. The "wiki process" and discussion with other editors as the
final decision-making mechanism for all content.
4. Free licensing of content; in practice defined by each project
as public domain, GFDL, CC-BY-SA or CC-BY.
5. Maintaining room for fiat to help resolve particularly difficult
problems. By convention, Jimbo Wales and later Arbitration Committees
retain certain authority on the English Wikipedia (and other wikis set
up similar frameworks) — to make binding, final decisions such as
banning an editor.
At the same time, I see (in english WP)
Wikipedia:Five pillars
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Five_pillars
As you see, this looks very fundamental 'pillars' to define what wikipedia is...
Wikipedia is an encyclopedia
Wikipedia has a neutral point of view
Wikipedia is free content
Wikipedia has a code of conduct
Wikipedia does not have firm rules
Clearly, NPV and free-content(free licensing of content) are shared
between the founding principles and the WP-5-five-pillars.
The first one is - an encyclopedia, which is an obvious definition of
the wikipedia project.
So, what I would like to watch closely here are the last 2 pillars,
Wikipedia has a code of conduct
Wikipedia does not have firm rules
To me, Wikipedia:Consensus that is a part of
Wikipedia has a code of conduct
tightly connects to
Wikipedia does not have firm rules = Wikipedia:Ignore all rules,
WP:NOTLAW,
WP:NOTDEMOCRACY.
and basically mentions the same concept, it looks like.
So, my questions are as follows.
1. While Wikipedia:Five pillars includes Founding_principles and the
definition of WP(Wikipedia is an encyclopedia), is this still english
local WP pillars?
or
What do you think if we share the WP pillars among WP local projects?
What do you think if a local WP project refuses to share the WP pillars?
2. What do you think 'IF' a local project like ja-wp ,as a result,
determines discard the essence of the concept -WP:Consensus and prefer
treat WP:rules as a Law?
That's it, thanks.
Regards,
--wp99
On dewiki there is a discussion whether the Ombudsman commission does
fulfill its mission.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Diskussion:Checkuser/Anfragen#Ombuds…
Some months ago there was a checkuser action which was questioned by
some users and the Ombudsman commission was asked to investigate the
case. The only dewiki member of the Ombudsman commission did recuse
himself from the case. The other members can't be reached or don't
comment.
Regards,
Peter
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Hoi,
Siebrand send this e-mail to the contributors to translatewiki.net. As
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Thanks,
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I'm sorry you got an email that bothered you. Trust me, we try to make sure no one is bothered by them. Sometimes people fall through the cracks, and I'm sorry that was the case here and in a few other cases.
We try - hard - to make sure that everyone who is entitled to vote knows it. Hours of translator and committee time went into that email. This morning, folks from the translation team worked hard to make the email as close as possible to perfect. Werdna created and managed the scripts and other vols have worked hard to manage the (multi lingual) responses. My point here is that we take suffrage very seriously and in our effort to make sure that EVERY qualified voter knew it, we didn't get it perfectly.
If that's the trade off for getting increased turnout in this critical election, I hope you can understand. I will sleep well tonight, knowing that we erred on the side of hitting TOO MANY voters, instead of not enough.
For myself only, but quite sure others share my feelings,
Philippe
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On Fri, Aug 7, 2009 at 4:40 PM, Brion Vibber <brion(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 8/7/09 2:35 PM, Gregory Maxwell wrote:
> > By containing the magic words "senior" and "architect" the proposed
> > "Senior Software Architect" is, in my experience, not inconsistent
> > with industry naming practice for the most important tech guru who
> > isn't primarily a manager.
> >
> > It's not a bad title in any case.
> >
> > (I was previously a manager and made a decision to hire a boss because
> > I realized I'd rather be doing technical work than performance
> > reviews. These days I'm just a lowly 'Senior … Engineer', and I'm
> > quite happy with that, thank you very much)
>
> Exactly.
>
> Now, if we really think of a_totally badass title_ before we get the
> business cards printed up I'm open to changing it, but honestly I like
> it and it fits the role I see for myself just fine. :)
My favorite title of all time, and I think the undisputed winner of the most
badass title of all time, is Chief Internet Evangelist. You could be the
Chief MediaWiki Evangelist, although architect does have a nice ring to it
for the time being. Perhaps later on in your career you'll take on the role
of Chief Wiki Evangelist.
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Hi all,
Just wondering what folk think about the WMF heading towards compliance with
things like this;
http://www.gsmeurope.org/documents/eu_codes/fsm_code_en.pdf
This is a german code of conduct - but there are many more (I've also spoken
with these chaps =- http://www.iia.net.au/ - and I got the feeling that
they'd very much like to engage with both communities, and the foundation as
the 'service provider')
My interest stems from discussing sexual content on wikimedia foundation
projects, but obviously engagement with such external bodies / codes of
practice etc. is far from limited to that sphere,
best,
Peter,
PM.