[Foundation-l] for the future...

[George Herbert]

On 7/3/07, Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org> wrote:
> On 7/3/07, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> >
> > It seems pretty clear to me that it would be reasonable for the
> > Foundation to send out an official election reminder by email in all
> > languages (or as many as we can muster) next time around.  Thoughts?
> >
> Sounds reasonable.  If it was done by the Foundation officially I
> don't think I would have had a problem with it.  Note the privacy
> policy specifically says that "The email address may be used by the
> Wikimedia Foundation to communicate with users on a wider scale."

I agree that it seems reasonable for this to be an official,
all-projects-wide thing to do.

We've had a few vocal "it's entirely inappropriate to do this"
complaints, and a lot of vocal "it was inappropriate to do this only
for a few projects" complaints.  In my opinion, the latter has a good
point, but the former are a sufficiently small minority.  It's at
worst a minor annoyance to some few, and the real, significant
benefits to the Foundation as a whole are clear to me.


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