--- Andreas Hoerstemeier <ahoerstemeier(a)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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