On 10/07/2014, Brion Vibber bvibber@wikimedia.org wrote:
Perhaps it's time to stop calling self-selected surveys of a tiny subset of our user base "community consensus".
The vast majority of our user base never logs in, never edits, and never even hears about these RfC pages. Those are the people we're making an encyclopedia for.
Whole heartedly agree that this is a known and recognized limitation of the RfC process, apart from where we are talking about Wikimedia Commons, not the English Wikipedia. Of course it does not invalidate the RfC as a survey of users that do log in, edit and hear about RfC pages.
Was there a report from a survey that supported having a MediaViewer specified as rolled-out and better represents the majority "user base" rather than the volunteer community of contributors?
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