Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Monday 23 September 2002 11:00 pm, Anthere wrote:
Question : if french or dutch decide they would prefer ? rather than red, is it technically possible ?
In order to preserve the good will of the non-English language Wikipedia's I propose that any change in default behavior like this /must/ be decided by each individual Wikipedia community.
I agree 100%. whit you.
For matters that have an impact on all wikipedias there must be a formal request for discussion on Intlwiki-l whit enough time ( 7 days ?) so that those wikipedians reading that list can organize a discussion procedure on their on wikipedia and/or maillinglist.
After there local discussion procedure a representative of all wikipedias kan give feedback in the name of that wikipedia on Intlwiki-l.
The part of the local discussion procedure is very important. There are wikipedians that have lives and do not read these maillinglists but only work on the wikipedia and doing the real work. If a wikipedia finds it is nessesary to include those people in the discession making proces it must be possibel, even if it takes time.
If it goes about a change that effect all wikipedias this procedure should be followed. If it goes about a small change that can simple be done individually for every wikipedia a simple announcement on Intlwiki-l should be enough.
Giskart