True, but not everyone reads the VP on each project: take Wikidata for example. There are a fair few people who don't read it at all! A mass message would be better, an email or banner to people better still - but it depends on who exactly you want the opinion of! "Community" is a big term :-)
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On 7 October 2015 at 15:35, Steinsplitter Wiki steinsplitter-wiki@live.com wrote:
You can post on VP that there is such a poll on :m:
Common sense.
From: richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 14:39:11 +0100 To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by Signpost
Steinsplitter, with respect (and I mean that!), I don't think a poll on meta would be enough. For something this big, either we get the views of the community as a whole - including those who don't read meta - or we
come
up with another way (eg a committee). A small poll on meta would not be representative enough.
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On 7 October 2015 at 12:04, Steinsplitter Wiki <
steinsplitter-wiki@live.com>
wrote:
A small poll on meta would be enough.
From: josephfoxwiki@gmail.com Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2015 19:14:59 +0000 To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by
Signpost
If you want the views of everyone on every project... then yes, I do.
On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 20:14 MF-Warburg mfwarburg@googlemail.com
wrote:
Do you really believe the community consists of several 100.000
people?
Am 06.10.2015 21:01 schrieb "Joseph Fox" <josephfoxwiki@gmail.com
:
On Tue, 6 Oct 2015 at 17:27 Steinsplitter Wiki < steinsplitter-wiki@live.com> wrote:
> To be honest: I am not surprised at all. > > Wikimedia Foundation is becoming moor and moor centralized.
They no
longer > care about the community, even if there is huge community
consensus
about
> something. > > Why is there a secret committee needed? It is easier to ask the community. >
While I agree it's important to sort things with the community
(since
that
is the lifeblood of the projects), are you seriously suggesting
that
it's
easier to gauge the consensus of hundreds of thousands of people
rather
than make a decision in a smaller committee, secret or otherwise?
Joe
> > I am disappointed > > > Date: Sat, 3 Oct 2015 18:13:13 -0400 > > From: nawrich@gmail.com > > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Wikimania 2017 Montreal - scooped by
Signpost
> > > > Evidently the Signpost has scooped the WMF by revealing that
Montreal
has > > been selected for the 2017 Wikimania host city in a secret
process
that
> > completed this past August. [1] > > > > It seems like the community could have been looped into this
new
method
> > before it was a done deal. > > > > ~Nathan > > > > [1] > > >
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2015-09-30/News_a...
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