Hoi,
Rules are not necessarily that great. It is much more important to have
clear guidelines. With rules people weasel there way around the words,
twist their meaning because as a rule a rule has to be non ambiguous.
With guidelines or principles this is not possible because their value
is not in their explicit phrasing but in what they implicitly try to say.
A rule is telling others what they have to do. A guideline or a
principle is there to tell what we are doing.
Thanks,
GerardM
valdelli(a)bluemail.ch wrote:
IMHO we have a lot of helps, guidelines and so on...
it is a good
initiative but we should reduce them looking to integrate as soon as
possible.
The community should have a small number and clair rules.
No rules is anarchy, more rules is burocracy... the risk is to have
rules which try to solve the same problem but with contradictory
solution.
Ilario
----Messaggio originale----
Da: dgerard(a)gmail.com
Data: 11.09.06 16.23
A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l(a)wikimedia.org>
Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Hi, Jimmy Wales, Is there inspectors to
investigate admins?
On 11/09/06, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I think that forcing new customs or rules which
comes from the
"top"
might create a natural opposision. I think the
best place to put
such
a general "good customs" translations
would be rather meta. Then
it
might be a good starting point how to slowly
apply it to the all
projects after duscussion within project's communities which
should
individally decide how to "customize"
them to the nature and
current
rules of their projects.
I'm working on an essay about process in my en: userspace:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:
David_Gerard/Process_is_Dangerous
Process is there to help write an encyclopedia. Beyond that, it
must
stay completely malleable. Important considerations are NPOV,
verifiability and no original research. For community maintenance,
assume good faith and no personal attacks; and don't bite the
newbies,
since they seem to write most of the actual content, on en: at
least.
- d.