[Foundation-l] tech team - content community bottleneck

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
Have a look at this <http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Special:SiteMatrix> and
then ask yourself if your request can be implemented. It sounds nice though.
Thanks,
     GerardM

On Jan 12, 2008 7:35 PM, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> --- Domas Mituzas <midom.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello!
> >
> > > And we would do well to refuse doing such thing.
> > Foundation would
> > > become
> > > a huge bottleneck and community will then begin
> > complaining that we
> > > are
> > > hindering the development of the projects.
> >
> > Well understood and appreciated.
> >
> > Yesterday I tried to do one tiny tiny change
> > (es.wikipedia wanted to
> > switch their timezone).
> > Of course, after last flames it was fun to make a
> > circus out of it
> > (forced few people - sysops and bureaucrats to 'sign
> > in blood'), but
> > here again, accurately interpreting votes and
> > resolutions in other
> > languages, where there were multiple votes on same
> > page, as well as
> > Great Walls of Text, was nearly impossible.
> >
> > Lots of things can be rolled forward and backwards,
> > so usually no
> > harm is done - except that it takes time and can
> > cause some
> > frustrations, if caught in the middle of heated
> > debate.
> >
> > So, we usually have just to trust that people who
> > come and ask for
> > things can really represent community, and are not
> > going to undermine
> > something in evil ways.
> > Usually we like to trust, and love to trust. But
> > sometimes a single
> > campaign against can shatter it all.
> >
> > --
> > Domas Mituzas -- http://dammit.lt/ -- [[user:midom]]
> >
> >
>
> Is there any way for b'crats to automatically put on
> the e-mail list for any bug filed for their wiki?
> This combined with a 5-day mandatory waiting period
> between filing and fixing a bug without the express
> support of a b'crat should be able to keep things
> running smoothly.
>
> Birgitte SB
>
>
>
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