Erik Moeller wrote:
I have formulated a policy for Wikipedia development here: http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Development_policy
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With this policy in place, it should become much more feasible to keep all the Wikipedias up to date. We still need someone to finish the conversion script, though -- Italian is still on UseMod, for example, they really should be switched over.
Sorry to ask, but where is the discussion about that policy? Have all delelopers agreed to this policy? Who count's as developer and had to agree to that policy?
Unfortunatly I sometimes feel like a developer (only if I add something to the CVS of course), but I din't feel like one as I got this mail. Are you not usually complaining that every change etc. has to be done via democtratic wiki decicion?
I think a proper poliy is ok, and it should be written down somewhere, even in more than one language IMHO. But should not be a little discussion about it, somewhere? Why not added that every change has to be documentated, especialy new features? Why there aren't any coding rules specified (at leased somethin like: no more than 78 chars/line)? Where discussions aout new features take place and where there have to be an archive about all this discussions? And I'm sure there are other things missing.
Sometimes you get the feeling that all the beautiful rules in wikipedia don't count a cent if they hit reality.
Smurf