On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 10:13 AM, Philippe Beaudette philippebeaudette@gmail.com wrote:
Attempting to impose en.wikipedia's worldview on things like this is probably doomed to failure, in my opinion... it's almost the online version of pushing a colonialist agenda.
Philippe
Also probably very harmful. Policy is not something that people should have absent a need. Let policy grow organically based on the needs of the users. You don't need to start people off with complex policy when they don't need it. Polls are evil and other essays exist, and can be referenced. No one starts a Wikipedia in a vacuum, and lessons learned from one will flow to another. But we shouldn't expect all the lessons learned on enwiki to be useful to everyone else.
Another way to think of this, Is there some problem that needs to be solved by this? Are smaller wikis currently being hurt by not having enough policy?