[Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

Etienne Beaule betienne at bellaliant.net
Sat Oct 29 19:59:58 UTC 2011


It could happen.


On 11-10-29 4:57 PM, "Mateus Nobre" <mateus.nobre at live.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Etienne,
> 
> Why any Wikipedia would not want the Wikilove feature?
> 
> This is inconsistent for me. Wikilove's a global improvement, there's no
> reason to disagree improvements.
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>> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:31:24 -0300
>> From: betienne at bellaliant.net
>> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove
>> 
>> But if we enable it at a wiki that doesn't want it, there could be a
>> boycott, and vandals just get the place up to there "code".  It would be
>> very detrimental to wikipedia.
>> 
>> 
>> On 11-10-29 12:27 PM, "Nickanc Wikipedia" <nickanc.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> IMHO, Wikilove is something so important about wikipedia's ethics and
>>> behaviour that shall be in every wiki. IMHO.
>>> 
>>> 2011/10/29 WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers at gmail.com>:
>>>>> Message: 1
>>>>> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:31:07 -0700
>>>>> From: Brandon Harris <bharris at wikimedia.org>
>>>>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered,
>>>>>        foolish software initiatives backed by WMF
>>>>> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>>>>> Message-ID: <4EAB2D2B.3020803 at wikimedia.org>
>>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 10/28/11 3:27 PM, Etienne Beaule wrote:
>>>>>> It's disabled on certain wikis because of technical problems.
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>        Oh? I wasn't aware that it had been disabled anywhere as yet.
>>>>> 
>>>>>        WikiLove was not rolled out "en mass"; the policy for deployment of
>>>>> the
>>>>> tool is that it is by request only, and the requesting wiki must:
>>>>> 
>>>>>                a) Make sure the tool is localized (via TranslateWiki);
>>>>>                b) Make sure they have a local configuration; and
>>>>>                c) Show community consensus.
>>>>> 
>>>>>        So if it was enabled and then *disabled*, I have not heard of this.
>>>>>  Is
>>>>> there a bug report I can look to?  Or if you know of a wiki where this
>>>>> is the case, I can do a search.
>>>>> 
>>>>>        Thanks!
>>>>> 
>>>>>        -b.
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> --
>>>>> Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
>>>>> 
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>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> Good to hear that wikilove is only going in on wikis where there is
>>>> consensus for it. Can anyone give me a link to the discussion that
>>>> established consensus on EN wikipedia? The nearest I could find was
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29/Arc
>>>> hi
>>>> ve_33#Thoughts_on_WikiLove.3F
>>>> 
>>>> Ta
>>>> 
>>>> WerepielChequers
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