Wait, aren't the chapters composed from people from the wikimedia community?
Also, didn't you guys stop by a second to think the chapter thoroughly discussed the
contents of the letter with its members, which may vote in favor or against publishing
it?
And if it is on Meta, is open to discussion, no?
Finally, in Venezuela we say "el que se pica es porque ají come". No need to
take it personally if you are not among those "certain" Commons admins, right?
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From: Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com>
Date: 26/02/2014 18:46 (GMT+02:00)
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter on open letters (Was: Open letter
from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA)
On 26 February 2014 13:51, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Maybe it's a cultural issue, does e.g.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_letter> have a geopolitically limited
point of view? Open letters are a common tool of *discussion* with the
public (= community in our case) in the corners of the world that I know
best.
As a major unpaid Commons contributor, I find these emotive and
political emails to lists and open letters elsewhere confusing and
rather wasteful of the good faith volunteer effort behind them.
If anyone wants to create meaningful and lasting change to Commons,
then please create a Request for Comment on Commons[1] rather than
making a fuss and criticising Commons (volunteer) administrators in
non-Commons discussion channels, which most Commons volunteers are
unlikely to either notice or care much about.
For Chapters, I suggest you check who among your active volunteers are
most active on Commons[2] and ask them to help engage or create
discussion about policy and guideline changes. If you cannot find
anyone close to your chapter that is active and engaged on Commons,
perhaps you should change that situation before firing off official
letters.
Links:
1.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RFC
2.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Userlist
Fae
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