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

[Carcharoth]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 11:12 PM, George Herbert
<george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Which incident are you both talking about? If Ken's user page makes it
obvious, just say that, but I can't immediately remember what you are
both talking about here.

Carcharoth