[Foundation-l] Simple English Encyclopedia

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Brian,
It is usually the responsibility of the proposer to notify the
community.  I am very surprised that no one did.

Very early on I have asked the proposer to join the community and help
fix the problems, and later again asked them to go back to the
beginning to the original proposal of wikipedia:simple:

However you cannot talk when everybody has already got er finger on er
trigger ready to shoot their {{support}} or {{oppose}}.

It may be an interesting idea requiring a discussion on the local
project to close it.  However, meta is useful as a cross-wiki
platform, and most closures requests are about inactive wikis, which
are much less contraversial, and in which case "discussion on the
local project" wouldn't work.

I think the a lot of pro-closure commenters in current discussion on
wikipedia:simple: has not bothered to think of the ideas of the other
side, and can only think of problems abstractly and rather not to deal
with them actually and locally.  Maybe we can combine the ideas, that
if there is substantial objection, the discussion of closure should be
moved on the local project.

Still, I would say that meta, being open and multilingual, is not
worse as a forum than this mailing list.   ~~~~



2009/2/23 Brian Salter-Duke <b_duke at bigpond.net.au>:
> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 09:36:52PM -0500, Casey Brown wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Brian Salter-Duke
>> <b_duke at bigpond.com.au> wrote:
>> > Yes, I missed the point about "any" project. However how is a user from
>> > Simple who hears about the closure of their project to know that when
>> > they go there to give their opinion, they have to prove their standing
>> > in the community? I think this is just another example of how remote
>> > Meta is for the average editor on other projects.
>> >
>>
>> Most of them time, it's noted in the SiteNotice, the main page, and/or
>> the main discussion page.  (This is what's normally/should be done for
>> the smaller wikis, at least.)
>
> Well in this case I'm missing it. Also, I do not know whether I am odd,
> but I hardly ever look at the main page, the community portal, etc on
> any of the projects I work on.
>
> Now on simple at:-
>
> http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Portal
>
> there is:-
>
> Proposal for closure
>    A proposal to close Simple English Wikipedia has been made.
>
> The first line is a link to the discussion on meta.
>
> I have not come across any other mention of this discussion on simple
> and no mention of having to have 100 edits on other projects to
> participate in the discussion on meta. How is the poor editor on simple
> to know this, if s/he does not visit meta normally?
>
> What am I missing?
>
> Brian.
>
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>>
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