Matthew Trump wrote:
Thanks for the link.
A strong majority of the voters would prefer that the attribute be removed for the English Wikipedia.
I'm reporting this knowing that it's up the developers to implement the will of the community.
I think it's disingenuous to speak of "the will of the community" when it's very clear from reading the comments on the vote page that "the will of the community" is deeply divided. There are distinct positions, both with very strong support, based on incompatible premises:
A: Wikipedia *should* reward good sites B: Wikipedia is not obligated to "reward" anybody at all
A: Wikipedia should reward *good* sites B: Wikipedia is obligated to remain neutral, and must not make judgements on who should be "rewarded"
A: Spam is a lower priority than rewarding quality web resources; we already weed out spam relatively well B: Spam's a big problem and only going to get worse as time goes on, and rewarding spammers' web sites probably isn't what you had in mind
Clearly an all-or-nothing toggle isn't going to satisfy anybody, much less everybody. So "implementing the will of the community", if it is to mean anything, must mean something *other* than turning a toggle off or leaving it on.
What do you suggest?
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)