Well, right now I think the best approach would be to just let them get it
all "on paper" (so to speak), and once we see what they have, we can help
them decide upon the best course to follow from there. It's going to
involve a lot of time and hard work, and a bit of diligence and gentle
nudging on our part, but I think we'll get there. Worst that can happen is
that that their efforts fail, which would be a bummer, but not a catastrophe.
-johnny.
--- On Sun, 7/13/08, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Ethics project on Wikiversity
To: sb_johnny(a)yahoo.com, "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Sunday, July 13, 2008, 3:03 PM
2008/7/13 John McC <sb_johnny(a)yahoo.com>om>:
These guys just arrived 3 days ago, and we're
trying to work with them to concentrate on their stated
goals (coming up with ethical guidelines that would improve
collaborative content creation on websites such as
Wikipedia), rather than what they're being distracted
by (they use the language of war to describe their
situation).
If they can work it out with joined-up thinking, it might
actually be
a net plus to the world rather than a waste of electrons,
e.g. suggest
a survey of the operating principles of other large wikis
be
completed.
- d.