[Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

Craig Franklin craig at halo-17.net
Sun Oct 30 04:06:36 UTC 2011


Personally, I find the whole "WikiLove" extension to be a bit naff and
schmaltzy.  I'm generally not thrilled when I get a WikiLove kitten or
anything, just like I'm not touched that my local member of Parliament has
thought to send me a form letter about how hard they're working for me.
 It's harmless enough though, I just choose to ignore it.

With that said though, if a particular project community decides they don't
want it, why should it be forced upon them?  I think this principle should
apply to *all* extensions, not just "harmless" or "global improvement" ones.

Cheers,
Craig


> Message: 1


> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:57:25 +0300


> From: Mateus Nobre <mateus.nobre at live.co.uk>


> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove


> To: <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>


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>   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>


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> >>>


> >>>


> >>>


> >>> 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


> >>>


> >>> Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate


> >>>


> >>>


> >> 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/Archi


> >> ve_33#Thoughts_on_WikiLove.3F


> >>


> >> Ta


> >>


> >> WerepielChequers


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