On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:58 PM, Sarah Stierch sarah.stierch@gmail.com wrote:
Sydney -- all good ideas, for sure! The resolution was intended as a (re)focusing device, as you note; and there is still lots of work to be done. One of the areas is making sure that all wikis have a similar policy. Would it help to put together a page on meta to coordinate this?
I'm not sure if we're ready to move it to meta yet, I do wish we had a more private place to develop this. It's a rather sensitive topic for folks. Perhaps a google doc or...?
Sarah
This is totally anecdotal, but I have been pretty pleasantly surprised with the reaction to the identifiable people resolution. It has induced some grumbling because of extra workloads, and there are images in debatable circumstances (beach: public or not?) that have gotten argued over, but I haven't seen any real opposition to the principle of model consent.
I think public discussion is good for a few reasons: * it helps highlight the issue, which can bring more people in; we shouldn't assume that everyone interested already knows about this resolution/issue (obviously you didn't ;) * it helps alleviate concerns about cabalism or cliquishness, which is the perpetual bane of online communities; * it helps provide documentation in a way that we know is backed up, and will be so for the foreseeable future * and it provides a place that people on other wikis can link and refer to * finally, I don't think documenting project policy and similar is a particularly sensitive issue. Other things (individual requests etc.) might be; but that wasn't really what I was thinking of here.
Digression: Like Brandon I have mixed feelings about g-docs, and I wish we had a better solution for what they are good at. I do think that they tend to sequester information in a way that is often unhelpful over the long term. I was a pretty early adopter of google docs, and I look at my folder sometimes and wonder how much knowledge about Wikimania planning is hidden away in there, inaccessible and therefore useless to anyone else -- too much, that's for sure.
cheers, Phoebe