[WikiEN-l] off-wiki attitude (was Re: BLP, and admin role in overriding community review)

[David Mestel]

Indeed.  That was what I was trying to say - I must have been unclear.

David

On 26/05/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> David Mestel wrote:
>
> >>Wikis in general, including MediaWiki in particular, are very poor for
> >>
> >>
> >conducting discussions
> >
> >The thing I find is that on-wiki, anything you say which you later think
> >better of stays around to haunt you forever.  Obviously, however,
> openness
> >is also a Good Thing, so I think that the bottom line is that IRC is a
> place
> >for informal opinion-gathering, not for actual decision-making.
> >
> OK, but you still need to make the arguments in a public place, where
> after discussion on IRC some of the more stupid elements can be
> eliminated.  Agreement on IRC is not on-wiki agreement.  The new people
> that become involved may have very different ideas.
>
> Ec
>
>
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-- 
David