[Foundation-l] Reflections on the recent debates

[Larry Pieniazek]

Anthere said:

> However, the lost perception that the community is in charge of its own
future
> (eg, the way it operates, the power structure), is not a detail.
> It will impact our entire future. 

The problem is that the community isn't "in charge" of anything. Time and
again we've seen that without precipitious action, the consensus process
stalls out. The community is leaderless. That's supposed to be a feature of
the wiki model but sometimes it's not.

Resolving BLP on en:wp had stalled out until a handful of admins (including,
I note, MZMcBride, among others) took some action. That got discussion going
and maybe some progress will be made. Or maybe things will stall out again.

Commons has too much problematic content. The [[Commons:Sexual Content]]
discussion and other policy discussions was completely stalled, with some
very vocal folks blocking progress. I'm not going to say that Jimbo handled
the best way possible but maybe now some progress in deciding what policy
will be will be made.  Or maybe things will stall out again. One can hope,
though.

Larry Pieniazek
Hobby mail: Lar at Miltontrainworks dot com