--- Andreas Hoerstemeier ahoerstemeier@spamcop.net wrote:
Gerard Meijssen wrote: So I wonder why [[meta:Wikispecies]] did not exist until yesterday? So there was absolutely no discussion of Wikispecies outside this mailing list - considering the controversy experienced here it feels strange that the creation of Wikispecies wasn't delayed until at least non-mailinglist Wikipedians had *a chance* to add their comment. Meta would also be the correct place to do the definition phase, after which a full proposal which addressed the worries of it being a fork would be there.
Yes - that is the way it *should* be. Creating a wiki for discussion and panning about a proposed Wikimedia project is very odd since that is part of what Meta is for.
After the immidiate uproar on the mailing list about the proposal went silent *without consensus* I would have expected to see a summary of that discussion on Meta, addressing the concerns by the proponents, and inviting more discussion by posting a note on Goings On, Village Pump, ToL talk page (and similar pages for the non-english WPs), instead of setting facts by creating the Wiki directly - so I can fully understand Mav's surprise and anger.
In the future would should procede more or less as you suggest.
-- mav
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