2007/1/16, Rob Church robchur@gmail.com:
On 16/01/07, Brion Vibber brion@pobox.com wrote:
I can't say words without having some God-given "policy" read into them.
The English Wikipedia took comments you and I made about being sensible and not worrying *too much* in a previous thread, and turned it into a guideline; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_worry_about_performance.
I assume, or hope, that these people still know when to suspend guidelines. I think most of them got it.
That guideline page has been complemented with some more quotes from this discussion. If you find that strange, maybe you should check a couple of the policy pages.
From Wikipedia:Consensus on English Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus#Exceptions ): "Declarations from Jimmy Wales, the Board, or the Developers, particularly for copyright, legal issues, or server load, are usually held to have policy status (see Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines)."
From Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines on English Wikipedia, regarding how
policies are started ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines#How_are_polic...) : "Declarations from Jimmy Wales, the Board, or the Developers, particularly for copyright, legal issues, or server load."
So unless the word "declaration" is defined, it actually says on two enwiki policy pages that pretty much anything you guys say on server load matters should be made into policy/guideline pages at once. It is at least very easy to interpret it that way. The guys who do not like this maybe could take some measures against it. *hint*
/habj