[Foundation-l] Fwd: [WikiEN-l] Bot policy for all wikis
Andre Engels
andreengels at gmail.com
Thu May 29 13:37:58 UTC 2008
I apologize for the tone of this message, it was uncalled-for. Still,
my main point stands: As long as the en: wikipedia has not stated that
their agreed-upon order is by code, there is no ground for criticizing
someone for not following that non-agreement.
2008/5/29 Andre Engels <andreengels at gmail.com>:
> 2008/5/29 Mark Williamson <node.ue at gmail.com>:
>> Please read my original e-mail, where I said I'm not aware of
>> up-to-date information, but I remember participating in a vote at
>> en.wp where sorting by code won overwhelmingly.
>
> So? You remember participating in a vote... I know of one such vote,
> which is not overwhelming (63 against 53 for using the codes), and
> which actually went the other way for the first 1.5 years of its
> running. Either get the English Wikipedia to MAKE THE DECISION or STOP
> COMPLAINING about people not following a decision THAT DOES NOT EXIST.
> The current language order in the bot was done that way because we
> were told to do so by the English Wikipedia. I'd happily change it,
> but THE DECISION IS UP TO THE ENGLISH WIKIPEDIA, NOT TO YOU.
>
>
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