2008/10/27 Amir E. Aharoni amir.aharoni@gmail.com:
- Communities like their autonomy: I like the en.wiki policies on
verifiability, notability, templates, userboxes, deletion discussion, appointing admins, etc.; I find them logical and i wish that all Wikipedias would adopt them. But some people who dislike certain aspects of another project may consider it so important that they would dislike the whole project because of that and wouldn't even want to hear about its positive sides and learn from them. Hence, a lot of wheel reinventing happens. So maybe the foundation could try to force some global policies? Probably not: Since communities like their autonomy and many editors would retire if policies would be stuck down their throats.
The problem is that any cross project decision making process is going to be dominated by en. Result is that projects insist on their autonomy and build other walls against en which then makes communication tricky.