[Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

[M. Williamson]

So... Wikilove is enabled on all Wikis only by consensus... except en.wp,
where it was pushed out with no consensus and as far as I can tell, no
research yet proving it had any results?


2011/10/29 Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>

> Hoi,
> Given that the English Wikipedia has a problem, its page views is going
> down for instance, there is a well documented division between the oldies
> and the newbies. There is a natural attrition as well as open conflict
> resulting in their being not as many editors as there used to be.
>
> Wikilove, the dashboard are all mechanisms to show appreciation and learn
> from newbies. This functionality is developed with the English Wikipedia in
> mind.
>
> My question what is the point in stagnating in old functionality when the
> established community is to approve new features especially new features
> not addressing the needs of the established community and seeking consensus
> only once these features have been developed?
>
> With respect, these features are introduced, experience is gained and
> consequently these features will be adapted. Does constant community
> consensus make sense and if so what is it that you hope to achieve? How is
> a no going to help given the need for a more healthy English community ?
> Thanks,
>      GerardM
>
> On 29 October 2011 14:49, WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > > 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/Archive_33#Thoughts_on_WikiLove.3F
> >
> > Ta
> >
> > WerepielChequers
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