The Technology Committee would be well positioned to help create standards across projects. Also, if there is a need to have a common set of features across projects, I would prefer to have the Technology Committee make those decisions. By doing so, the principles of democracy and consensus would apply, and the benefits of features commonality could still be achieved.
Marc, thank you for speaking candidly.
Pine
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 1:01 PM, Pete Forsyth peteforsyth@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Isarra Yos zhorishna@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?
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