On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
That's only true if there is general agreement that the feature would be nice to have and there is just a question of whether it is worth the effort. That it not the case here.
The referendum was pretty clearly predicated on the basis that the feature was going forward:
"The Board of Trustees has directed the Wikimedia Foundation to develop and implement a personal image hiding feature."
"[The referendum was held] to gather more input in to the development and usage of an opt-in personal image hiding feature".
And from the resolution:
"We ask the Executive Director, in consultation with the community, to develop and implement a personal image hiding feature..."
(not "We ask the Executive Director, so long as the can't-recognise-the-irony-in-fighting-censorship-by-stopping-people-choosing-what-they-want-to-see crowd gives their blessing, to develop and implement...")
The questions are all relating to the development of the feature, save for the 'culturally neutral' question: the first is about how to prioritise it, and the others are about setting out the specs for the feature.