If there is one thing I've learned so far in my short life, it is that
patience is among the greatest virtues and that politeness will
usually get me much further than demands.
There are of course situations where it is necessary to be firm,
however this is not one of them considering the power dynamic. If I
want a developer to do something for me, the last thing I will do is
demand they do it (mind you it's been several years since I asked
anything of them as far as I can remember). It's certainly possible
that they will forget about my request so I may remind them from time
to time, but it's essential to recognize that they are very busy
people, an already-locked Wikipedia with only several hundred articles
is understandably going to be much lower on their list of priorities
than problems involving the heavy traffic Wikis such as en.wp or
de.wp.
I'm not suggesting that anybody ignore the issue, just that a
different approach be taken to resolution.
Mark
On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:14 PM, geni<geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/7/10 John Doe <phoenixoverride(a)gmail.com>om>:
Cetateanu Im going to be nice in how I say this,
DO NOT DEMAND things from
developers. If dev says they are not ready THEY ARE NOT READY. please also
consider that these developers run one of the top ten websites on the
internet, so they must be doing it right for the most part or the servers
would be a smoking pile of rubble. There are a lot more complex and unseen
factors that exist on large scale server arrays such as wikimedia's than
what your recommending. If either of your ideas where feasible with the
current system it would have been taken care of. Here is a suggestion, LET
THE DEVELOPERS DEVELOP a good way to implement your request without breaking
things
Given the current time over which the request has been ongoing and the
politics involved (remeber they only stopped shooting each other
17years ago) I think it is understandable if people are not entirely
prepared to sit back and hope the devs get on with it.
--
geni
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