Meta deals with documentation for Wikimedia projects. It does not deal with the Community aspects of Wikimedia. The Community Assembly was just a title with a nice ring. Community is synonymous with mob. Assembly sounds like something of importance.
----- Original Message ---- From: Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 6:13:04 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community Assembly
In accordance with the principles of the open source movement, membership in the Assembly would be granted to any Wikimedian who requests it.
Then why have it as a distinct group? You're talking about "The Wikimedia Community", so call it "The Wikimedia Community", there's no need for an assembly. Once you realise that, it also becomes clear that these "subgroups" are, in fact, just the naturally forming groups of people interested in a particular policy (or whatever) that discuss it on that policy page.
You've just invented meta. It's a good idea, but it's so good it's already been done.
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2008/5/12 Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com:
Meta deals with documentation for Wikimedia projects. It does not deal with the Community aspects of Wikimedia. The Community Assembly was just a title with a nice ring. Community is synonymous with mob. Assembly sounds like something of importance.
Then increase the remit of meta (which can be done simply by using it for new purposes, there's no need for any structure). All your idea involves is giving the community a new name - I really don't see the point.
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com wrote:
Meta deals with documentation for Wikimedia projects. It does not deal with the Community aspects of Wikimedia. The Community Assembly was just a title with a nice ring. Community is synonymous with mob. Assembly sounds like something of importance.
Erm, no. Meta-Wiki is a lot more inclusive than that. It's basically the juncture/meeting point for all projects. That is where the stewards reside/handle requests, where we edit the global spam blacklist, edit most of the main site files (like http://wikipedia.org), coordinate translations for the Foundationwiki, etc. It is a *lot* more than documentation and deals a /huge/ amount with the community aspects of Wikimedia.
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