Well, right now I think the best approach would be to just let them get it all "on paper" (so to speak), and once we see what they have, we can help them decide upon the best course to follow from there. It's going to involve a lot of time and hard work, and a bit of diligence and gentle nudging on our part, but I think we'll get there. Worst that can happen is that that their efforts fail, which would be a bummer, but not a catastrophe.
-johnny. --- On Sun, 7/13/08, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
From: David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ethics project on Wikiversity To: sb_johnny@yahoo.com, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 3:03 PM 2008/7/13 John McC sb_johnny@yahoo.com:
These guys just arrived 3 days ago, and we're
trying to work with them to concentrate on their stated goals (coming up with ethical guidelines that would improve collaborative content creation on websites such as Wikipedia), rather than what they're being distracted by (they use the language of war to describe their situation).
If they can work it out with joined-up thinking, it might actually be a net plus to the world rather than a waste of electrons, e.g. suggest a survey of the operating principles of other large wikis be completed.
- d.