In case anybody believes Wikimedia Foundation personnel have entirely forgotten this issue, please be assured that is not the case. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T119595
Speaking for myself, I'm not convinced that taking action on a two year old RFC at Commons is the most pressing component of this collection of issues (though I understand and respect that others might feel differently).
I strongly agree with the principle that ignoring a request is far worse than merely refusing to grant it. But I also feel that there is more support for that perspective at the WMF these days than there has been during the past two years. I think it's best if we all keep that possibility in mind, as we make choices about what issues to bring up again, and how to present them.
-Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] (author of Letter to WMF on Superprotect and Media Viewer: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Letter_to_Wikimedia_Foundation:_Superprotect... )
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:01 PM, Vi to vituzzu.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
Oh I missed dates, this is a good point then. Ignoring a wide community consensus is *always* a mistake. Final decisions might even diverge from consensus but *ignoring* is the worst way.
Vito
2016-03-14 21:31 GMT+01:00 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
That's a good point. I've started a discussion on Commons' VP about this at:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Village_pump#2014_RfC_for_the_Med...
Thanks, Mike
On 14 Mar 2016, at 17:03, Anthony Cole ahcoleecu@gmail.com wrote:
That RFC is 20 months old. That media viewer is not today's media
viewer.
Anthony Cole
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:12 PM, Marc A. Pelletier marc@uberbox.org wrote:
On 16-03-14 10:59 AM, Nathan wrote:
the non-participation of non-participants can't render all decisions invalid.
It rarely becomes a problem in practice; the vast majority of
decisions
made on projects are editorial or internal management.
In this particular case, there is a tiny segment of the editing community making a sweeping UI decision that - by definition - doesn't even affect *them*.
That can't possibly be right.
-- Marc
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