On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 11:37, Jimmy Wales wrote:
The Cunctator wrote:
Of course I can. But can you see my point, too? Can you see how decisions made by a few dozen people is not much different from decisions made by one person, in comparison to a population of, say, one million, or even ten thousand?
Fortunately, though, we don't have those problems today. Today, as we are doing here and now, we talk about policy primarily on the mailing list. This has proven to be better, all round, than the alternatives.
The are many variations in action; the WikiProject pages are an alternative that works well; STG's reformulation of the FAQ pages (which he announced on the mailing list, but the discussion is on the Talk page) is a good alternative, etc.
A meta-policy of flexibility is what I'm going for. If it seems I've been arguing for hiding things from the mailing list, I apologize. That's not the case.