[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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