Filip Maljkovic wrote:
Forwarding on behalf of Waldir.
Cheers, Filip
Well, damn. Don't know how the message got removed. Anyways, here it is :)
Hi all.
I would like to request your attention to a vote that will start this midnight, regarding a rearrangement of the top ten Wikipedias that are displayed on the main wikipedia portal (http://www.wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/).
This topic has been wandering around for a long time on Talk:www.wikipedia.org template http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:www.wikipedia.org_template, coming to surface in many occasions, especially on the times around the milestone of 100.000 articles of the Chinese and Russian Wikipedias.
After a tentative wrap-up of all the proposals made in that page throughout the months in Talk:www.wikipedia.org template#rethinking the top ten http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Www.wikipedia.org_template#rethinking_the_top_ten, a discussion was launched in *Top Ten Wikipedias http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Top_Ten_Wikipedias*, to which all the major Wikipedias have been invited to in their village pump.
A lot of good opinions have been collected and discussed, and a vote proposal http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Top_Ten_Wikipedias#Vote_proposal has been made and received some feedback. That proposal was now implemented on Metapub. Please head to the poll http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metapub#Top_10_Wikipedias.28poll.29 to vote. I hope to see you there! --Waldir http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Waldir 12:33, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
Filip Maljkovic wrote (on behalf of Waldir):
I would like to request your attention to a vote that will start this midnight, regarding a rearrangement of the top ten Wikipedias that are displayed on the main wikipedia portal
Please head to the poll http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metapub#Top_10_Wikipedias.28poll.29 to vote. I hope to see you there! --Waldir
You failed to mention what sort of authority or mandate this poll has been given, compared to all previous opinions, votes and polls on the same topic in recent years. I don't even know whether the design of the www.wikipedia.org front page is the responsibility of the WMF board, its chairman or the CEO. Will they agree to be micromanaged by spontaneous polls among the audience? After the vote has ended on July 31, who will implement the changes? Who decided the time limits for this poll, and the criteria for who can vote (account 3 months ago, 500 edits total)? To an outside reader it might seem like anybody can make the rules and decide anything. Does this mean I can start a new poll on the same subject in September?
I don't mind an opinion poll. I don't mind the front page being redesigned. What I do question is the right to initiate new polls or institutions (last time it was the community council) that take the shape of government over the WMF. The WMF should be ruled according to its bylaws, not by spontaneous mobs.
Who are you?
On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 10:43 PM, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Filip Maljkovic wrote (on behalf of Waldir):
I would like to request your attention to a vote that will start this midnight, regarding a rearrangement of the top ten Wikipedias that are displayed on the main wikipedia portal
Please head to the poll http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Metapub#Top_10_Wikipedias.28poll.29 to vote. I hope to see you there! --Waldir
You failed to mention what sort of authority or mandate this poll has been given, compared to all previous opinions, votes and polls on the same topic in recent years. I don't even know whether the design of the www.wikipedia.org front page is the responsibility of the WMF board, its chairman or the CEO. Will they agree to be micromanaged by spontaneous polls among the audience? After the vote has ended on July 31, who will implement the changes? Who decided the time limits for this poll, and the criteria for who can vote (account 3 months ago, 500 edits total)? To an outside reader it might seem like anybody can make the rules and decide anything. Does this mean I can start a new poll on the same subject in September?
I don't mind an opinion poll. I don't mind the front page being redesigned. What I do question is the right to initiate new polls or institutions (last time it was the community council) that take the shape of government over the WMF. The WMF should be ruled according to its bylaws, not by spontaneous mobs.
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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Vaibhav Simlote wrote:
Who are you?
I signed with my real name and a URL to my website. When I edit Wikipedia, I'm [[user:LA2]].
I think he meant that more along the lines of "Who do you think you are?". I could be wrong, though.
Mark
On 07/07/2008, Lars Aronsson lars@aronsson.se wrote:
Vaibhav Simlote wrote:
Who are you?
I signed with my real name and a URL to my website. When I edit Wikipedia, I'm [[user:LA2]].
--
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On Mon, Jul 7, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I think he meant that more along the lines of "Who do you think you are?". I could be wrong, though.
And if he intended that kind of a question, it would be a good time for other people to step in and tell him that Lars is a well-known, trusted and friendly Wikipedian. His points were valid.
Mathias
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