[Foundation-l] Community Assembly

[Geoffrey Plourde]

And on the Wikieth day, God invited Skype/Teamspeak. 



----- Original Message ----
From: Ben Yates <ben.louis.yates at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 11, 2008 11:57:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community Assembly

It'll work best if it incorporates video chat.  There are all sorts of
problems with purely text-based communication; people work together
best when they can see each other.

(I know, I know, there's no open source video chat, right?  There's no
open source monitor manufacturer either; that doesn't mean I use a
dotmatrix printout to see what the output is.)

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Jesse Plamondon-Willard
<pathoschild at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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