[Foundation-l] VC - alternative resolution
Birgitte SB
birgitte_sb at yahoo.com
Sun Apr 6 14:08:52 UTC 2008
--- Philippe Beaudette <philippebeaudette at gmail.com>
wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> From: "Birgitte SB" <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com>
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 9:13 AM
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
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> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] VC - alternative
> resolution
> >... I believe there has been consensus for years
> > that RfA is broken at en.WP, but no one has a
> > solution... There is also an
> > acknowledged problem on en.WP of how to balance
> > anonymity with NPOV when people with suspected
> > personal and financial interests in an article
> start
> > editing it.
>
>
> Actually, just to comment on this: I think there
> would be significant
> resistance within the en:Wikipedia to any external
> group - including VC -
> that tried to "fix" RfA. That is properly a task
> that belongs to the
> project, and if the project has said "this is a
> significant issue, but not
> one that we care enough about to fix yet", then I
> think that's a valid
> argument (and I think it also happens to fairly
> document the current state
> of affairs on en:WP). I think the same applies to
> the example of how to
> balance anonymity with NPOV. I, for one, would have
> real issues with the VC
> dictating to those issues, unless I was totally
> confident that the members
> of the VC truly understood the community's feelings
> about them, and I don't
> really know what mechanism could be in place to
> express them to the VC.
>
> I may have misunderstood what Brigitte was saying,
> but that's my initial
> read.
>
> Philippe
>
I was not suggesting the VC go into any one community
and "fix it"; I was just pointing out that there are
problems well known and agreed on by communities which
have not been dealt with. If the RfA is a problem in
multiple communities; I would support the VC examining
the issue and drafting some recommendations on best
practices. But it would be up to individual
communities to change their process and I would not
supprt the VC giving attention to this if en.WP is the
only place there is a problem. My participation in
this thread has mainly been to disagree with Milos
focus on using examples of how the VC could go into
communities that meta people have a problem with and
"fix it".
Birgitte SB
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