2006/7/10, Platonides Platonides@gmail.com:
Andre Engels, your position is: changes to interface should get consensus before. So, when a new extension is added, or changed, and there're several new (renamed) messages, should i kindly ask permission for translating it from english? Don't be ridiculous! I translate them, and if i make mistakes or something is wrong, another one will change it. It's a wiki, do you remember? Changing outdated messages is fine to me. And if the other version is equivalent, there's no 'large change'.
There's nothing outdated about the messages, and changing numerous existing translations is quite different from translating them afresh.
The action itself was hostile. On Wikipedia we work with consensus, not one person doing something and the rest being given a fait accompli.
We also [[Wikipedia:Assume good faith|]]. Asking a poll on every change would [[Wikipedia:Don't disrupt Wikipedia to illustrate a point|disrupt Wikipedia]]
I'm not saying there should be a poll. I'm saying there should be given an opportunity to discuss. No objections? Fine, go ahead. Objections? Fine too, the thing can only get better from that. It sure beats giving people a fait accompli.
It has been argued that others want to be part of the decision of what are project specific messages. It has been argued that others want to know what is going to happen. It has been argued that others want to be part of the decision on which message of two similar ones is the better one.
*Then*, it should be argued, but only after it was asked.
After what was asked?