Looking at the archive, 16% of the posts to this single thread were by Gerard Meijssen. This first and only post from me on this is to agree with Yaroslav that it has been over-cooked and to point out that a better forum for this type of extended chatter is Facebook; at least until someone does something beyond vague opining.
How nice it would be to find well thought out and purposeful emails, worth putting aside to mull over on a bus ride or train journey. Instant one liners and two-party argumentative conversation seems to swamp the handful of pearls to be discovered each month in repetitive seaweed, and poorly punctuated driftwood.
Of course, this thread is still far more amusing than seeing my mailbox filled with 20 one-liner empty congratulations that could have so easily been made on a personal wiki page. But that view could be down to my age induced irritability and past enhancing rose tinted spectacles.
Fae
On 7 February 2017 at 21:43, Yaroslav Blanter ymbalt@gmail.com wrote:
Shouldn't we just freeze this thread? It is not going to do any good.
Cheers Yaroslav
On Tue, Feb 7, 2017 at 9:59 PM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/07/2017 12:07 PM, Bill Takatoshi wrote:
Anyone can go to Recent Changes and send a SurveyMonkey link to the most recent few hundred editors with contributions at least a year old, to get an accurate answer.
Will a respected member of the community please do this? I would like to know what the actual editing community thinks of the travel ban and their idea of an appropriate response. I don't want to see community governance by opt-in participation in obscure RFCs.
I would offer to do this myself, but I value keeping my real name unassociated with my enwiki userid.
Conducting a survey can have unforeseen challenges and impacts. A page worth reviewing before running a survey: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Survey_best_practices
The Wikimedia Foundation also offers support for those running surveys (which is a different thing from persuading the WMF to run a survey itself): https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Surveys
-Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]]