On 5/9/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 09/05/07, River Tarnell river@attenuate.org wrote:
at [0] there seemed to be near consensus that using this namespace for something might be useful. is WP:VP discussion not enough for changing something on enwiki? what is? [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)/Archive#Spli...
Asking lots of people in lots of places. 43,000 editors in any given month, 4330 frequent editors in any given month ... en:wp is a big place. Look at the [[WP:ATT]] proposal, which was worked on for months and then when it was finally *released* was the first a lot of people had ever heard of it, and they went "um, no." Local consensus with effects outside the local consensus zone isn't usefully consensus.
More directly: many people, even very active users, don't follow many discussions on the village pump, if any at all.