This perspective is not a productive one for building and maintaining a
community. You need to have a better way of granting legitimacy to people's
concerns while being able to discern histrionics.
Generally the optimal easy is to have there be a pathway by which the
complainants have to fix the problem to the satisfaction of their strongest
opposition.
On Aug 6, 2013 1:04 PM, "Peter Southwood" <peter.southwood(a)telkomsa.net>
wrote:
To me it looks like a fairly small number of editors
are making a fairly
large amount of noise, A very small number making a disproportionately
large amount, and a much larger number, probably the majority, have not
even bothered to comment at all. I also have not analysed the numbers, but
to me it looks like the numbers who have made one liner comments that they
approve is probably the same order of magnitude as the number who protest
incessantly. This is Wikipedia, there are always a small number who make a
lot of noise. After a while fewer people take them seriously. I start to
get the impression that there are now some people who have invested so much
effort into making a big deal of this that they now feel obliged to make an
even bigger deal so they can feel justified in doing so. Maybe I'm wrong,
maybe the numbers do indicate a wdespread and deep seated sense of
alienation. Maybe not. Time will probably tell, and hey, someone who is
prepared to approach the analysis scientifcally may get a dissertation out
of it. Stranger things have happened.. I also think the approach was
flawed, but I appreciate the reasons and I am prepared to assume good faith.
Cheers,
Peter
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I've made no claim about "most" long-term editors, but any perusal of the
> two RFCs and the Feedback page would demonstrate that there's a fairly
> large group.
>
> Or are you arguing that deploying bug-ridden software that corrupts
> articles, hangs browsers, crashes unexpectedly, and doesn't have sufficient
> features to edit basic articles is somehow OK as long the site survives the
> disruption? Even if it can be shown that development knew that was the case
> prior to deployment, and chose to deploy it anyway?
>
> KWW
>
> Op 2013/08/06 10:54, Peter Southwood schreef:
>
>> Evidence that most long term editors are frothing at the mouth would be
>> a good start, evidence that the rollout of VE has had a significant impact
>> on long term editor retention, either way, even evidence that WP is in
>> rapid decline that is in any way related to VE, positively or negatively,
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
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>>
>> Op 2013/08/06 9:07, Peter Southwood schreef:
>>>
>>>> Do you have data to back up your claims?
>>>> Peter
>>>>
>>> What do you need? Evidence that Wikipedia has survived for years?
>>> Evidence that its decline is not so rapid as to indicate an emergency
>>> situation? Quotes from Erik where he states that he disrupted English
>>> Wikipedia in order to create a test bed? The first two are judgement calls,
>>> for the third there's an embarrassment of riches. Let me know what you
need.
>>>
>>> KWW
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>> Sent:
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>>>>
>>>> Op 2013/08/05 23:44, MZMcBride schreef:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This leaves us to consider the biggest question: opt-in vs.
opt-out.
>>>>>> Erik and James are both quite smart, they are true Wikimedians,
and they
>>>>>> make reasonable points about choosing opt-out over opt-in.
>>>>>>
>>>>> This is the point on which we fundamentally disagree. Their argument
>>>>> for 'opt-out' is based solely upon the quality and quantity
of testing that
>>>>> it affords to VE. VE is not a mission-critical feature: while we
have
>>>>> concerns about Wikipedia's sustainability, there's no
question that it has
>>>>> survived for years and will survive for years more. The stability of
the
>>>>> site is much more important than testing this code, and the testing
>>>>> strategy of presenting it as if it was functioning software and
seeing what
>>>>> people did with it wasn't a reasonable decision: it was
completely and
>>>>> absolutely irresponsible.
>>>>>
>>>>> KWW
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