[Foundation-l] Community Assembly

[Geoffrey Plourde]

Just because a body is large does not mean that decisions will be bad. Are you saying that the community is too stupid to govern itself?  


----- Original Message ----
From: Jesse Plamondon-Willard <pathoschild at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 10:07:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community Assembly

Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
If it would make you happier, the consensus provision can be changed
to a 60% majority.

We can rarely achieve a 60% majority consensus for most issues on this
list, and its membership is smaller than that of an all-inclusive
assembly. Depending on voting also makes numerical superiority more
important than meaningful debate, so that a cultural or
special-interest minority (likely including en-Wikipedia) would
dominate the community through the assembly using numerical
superiority. Reaching many bad decisions due to poor representation is
worse than reaching few good decisions.

-- 
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)

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