Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Meta exists already for a long time this is where the discussions about mediawiki occur. Procedures have been defined, responsibilities have
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.
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.
been defined, the board has been chosen. And apparently when something is decided that you do not like it is "undemocratic". The United States
The Wikimedia board of course had the power to decide to start that project already, and I have no doubts they did it in good faith, however it just leaves a bad feeling to do so with the first discussion IMHO leaving many questions unanswered.
The content covered by Wikispecies is a project worth doing, it being separate from Wikipedia might turn out to be not a fork, yet the way it was created leaves a bad taste.
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