On 3/1/07, Robert Horning robert_horning@netzero.net wrote:
GerardM wrote: Yeah, I guess I was living under a rock or something here myself. This is a very new philosophy coming out that the board is going to be very directly involved with "global" policies that directly affect the content of each project. The idea that each one of the 200 or so "active" Wikimedia projects will each have to submit some sort of "EDP" to legal counsel, overcoming language and local legal issues too, seems to be something so absurd as to be unworkable as well.
So set up 3-4 basic ones they can chose from/
This top down attitude is something that I'm not very comfortable with, particularly when we are mainly dealing with voluntary community leaders here, especially when it comes to working with the nearly 5,000 individual administrators who would bear the brunt of trying to implement both the culling of this content and watching over individual projects to make sure this sort of content doesn't creep back in. I'm guessing that it is this group to whom the policy is really going to matter anyway. All of these admins, with perhaps a few exceptions, are the most experienced of Wikimedia users and are largely the ones who perform the day to day tasks that make the projects what they are. Certainly they are helping to build the infrastructure and other aspects of the projects that help support content development.
I suspect quite a few of them would be relived they don't keep having to fight simply to prevent policy allowing even more unfree content.