[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

[George Herbert]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:03 PM, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, wiki wrote:
>> The notion that what new editors really value is the ability to participate
>> in policy discussions, and that any move away from that is "dangerous" is
>> just more nonsense of the libertine variety. We are building an encyclopedia
>> - remember that? The rest is just pragmatic sausage making.
>
> Well, I can tell you I left because of a policy decision (well, there were a
> whole bunch of things but the policy decision was one of the worst.)

...And a policy discussion which was driven by a small, vocal, and
policy-active minority, who drove a solution upstream against a
consensus gap.

The long term damage that incident did has been consistently shoveled
under the rug.


-- 
-george william herbert
george.herbert at gmail.com