On 05/06/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
on 6/5/07 5:26 PM, David Gerard at dgerard(a)gmail.com
wrote:
> On 05/06/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>> The archives of this List are FULL of
suggestions for change (some actually
>> workable ;-)). The question is how, and where, do we take those suggestions
>> to be acted upon?
> Good question. An idea has to be both convincing and inspiring to
> really take. The politics of large-scale volunteer collaboration ...
> you need to make people *want* to implement your idea.
But, as I understand it, we are not talking about the
style, or other such
changes, related to editing the content of the encyclopedia. But, rather,
changes related to the very structure of its management.
Same there too. It's more work, of course. And it has to be a really
good idea and you have to be really convincing with it. It's a process
of herding cats.
- d.