On 28/01/07, habj sweetadelaide@gmail.com wrote:
"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*
Oh, for god's sake. More common sense needed, obviously.
That particular statement is supposed to be applied as (example case):
* Brion discovers something a group of users is doing is causing unhelpful load * Brion asks people not to do it - with luck, asking is all that is needed - while we find a better solution * If asking doesn't work, then people can be *told* not to do it * A better solution is found
If everything Brion or Tim says is supposed to be taken as gospel, then we *will* have [[Wikipedia:Brion is on crack]] and [[Wikipedia:Users suck]]. Clearly you can see that this is ludicrous.
There are clearly far too many policy wonks on the English Wikipedia. I don't recall we have problems with any other project understanding this sort of thing.
Rob Church