On 04/06/2013 09:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
By the way, it would be lovely not to call communication like nationalization... sometimes I see people coming to communities saying they're socializing something and it feels weird. ;-) (Especially as it's false good news.)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/socialize (transitive) To take into collective or governmental ownership
Nemo
Nemo, I have sympathy for you here -- it took a while for me to get used to the use of "socialize" in the way the Wikimedia communities use it. I think socializing is more than just "communication" implies, though; "communication" sometimes implies a simple broadcast, where "socializing" implies:
* this is a process, not a one-time global message * presenting the reasons for a change, not just saying it's going to happen * thinking from the perspective of the people affected and asking them relevant questions * learning new facts and perspectives from the affected communities and using them to modify plans * negotiation
So I am resigned to using "socialization" because I don't think there's a better succinct phrase for this.