On Sep 1, 2014 3:21 PM, "Philippe Beaudette" <pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> On Sep 1, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Todd Allen <toddmallen(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's contradicted by, among other things, ACTRIAL as mentioned above.
The
> en.wp community came to a clear consensus for a
major change, and the
WMF
shrugged and
said "Nah, rather not."
That's... Not exactly what I remember happening there. What I remember
was that
a pretty good number (~500) of enwiki community members came
together and agreed on a problem, and one plan for how to fix it and asked
the WMF to implement it. The WMF evaluated it, and saw a threat to a basic
project value. WMF then asked "what's the problem you're actually trying to
solve?", and proposed and built a set of tools to directly address that
problem without compromising the core value of openness. And it seems to
have worked out pretty well because I haven't heard a ton of complaints
about that problem since.
I don't agree with that assessment, but it's possible I'm missing some
elements of the process. Philippe, any chance you could full in the summary
with a few specifics, and maybe some links?
Pete