[Foundation-l] Blanking a Wikipedia, a very bad idea

[Benjamin Lees]

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Mathias Schindler
<mathias.schindler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Then can you specify the threshold for the community-ratio that is in
> your opinion required for some Wikipedians to vandalize a language
> edition of Wikipedia in such way?

Unless the WMF decides it should intervene, the de facto threshold is
whatever allows them to get consensus and have an admin make the
necessary changes and not be reverted.  As a practical matter, the
Kiribati-based community would not be able to do something like this
on the English Wikipedia.