[Foundation-l] Hi, Jimmy Wales, Is there inspectors to investigate admin

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Rules are not necessarily that great. It is much more important to have 
clear guidelines. With rules people weasel there way around the words, 
twist their meaning because as a rule a rule has to be non ambiguous. 
With guidelines or principles this is not possible because their value 
is not in their explicit phrasing but in what they implicitly try to say.

A rule is telling others what they have to do. A guideline or a 
principle is there to tell what we are doing.

Thanks,
    GerardM

valdelli at bluemail.ch wrote:
> IMHO we have a lot of helps, guidelines and so on... it is a good 
> initiative but we should reduce them looking to integrate as soon as 
> possible.
>
> The community should have a small number and clair rules.
>
> No rules is anarchy, more rules is burocracy... the risk is to have 
> rules which try to solve the same problem but with contradictory 
> solution.
>
> Ilario
>
> ----Messaggio originale----
> Da: dgerard at gmail.com
> Data: 11.09.06 16.23
> A: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"<foundation-l at wikimedia.org>
> Oggetto: Re: [Foundation-l] Hi, Jimmy Wales,	Is there inspectors to 
> investigate admins?
>
> On 11/09/06, Tomasz Ganicz <polimerek at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> I think that forcing new customs or rules which comes from the 
>>     
> "top"
>   
>> might create a natural opposision. I think the best place to put 
>>     
> such
>   
>> a general "good customs" translations would be rather meta. Then 
>>     
> it
>   
>> might be a good starting point how to slowly apply it to the all
>> projects after duscussion within project's communities which 
>>     
> should
>   
>> individally decide how to "customize" them to the nature and 
>>     
> current
>   
>> rules of their projects.
>>     
>
>
> I'm working on an essay about process in my en: userspace:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:
> David_Gerard/Process_is_Dangerous
>
> Process is there to help write an encyclopedia. Beyond that, it 
> must
> stay completely malleable. Important considerations are NPOV,
> verifiability and no original research. For community maintenance,
> assume good faith and no personal attacks; and don't bite the 
> newbies,
> since they seem to write most of the actual content, on en: at 
> least.
>
>
> - d.