On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Isarra Yos <zhorishna(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 02/09/14 11:46, Marc A. Pelletier wrote:
On 09/02/2014 02:52 AM, Yann Forget wrote:
OK, I could buy that [fixing image pages]. But
then why not
fixing that *first*, so that
any MV implementation coming afterwards would be smooth?
In the best of worlds, that would have been ideal.
Now, no doubt I'm going to be branded a cynic for this, but have you
ever /tried/ to standardize something on a project? Obviously, my frame
of reference is the English Wikipedia and not Commons; but in a world
where there exists at least six distinct templates whose primary
function is to transclude a single "<references/>" onto a page and where
any attempt to standardize to one of them unfailingly results in edit
wars, that doesn't seem like a plausible scenario.
I have. It's a lot of work to set up and keep on track, and can take a
goodly long while to get going at all, but when it succeeds, it's totally
AWESOME.
Wasn't on Wikimedia, but should be totally doable here, too, provided the
time, energy, and utter insanity required. Principles are the same.
+1
The Wikimedia Foundation operates in a world in which incredible efforts at
collaboration, consensus-building, and creating standards in complex
environments happens *every day* -- but, that doesn't fit in too well with
the preferred narrative of "our community is impossible to wrangle." Maybe
that is why the lessons get ignored?
Pete
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