[Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

Etienne Beaule betienne at bellaliant.net
Sat Oct 29 15:31:24 UTC 2011


But if we enable it at a wiki that doesn't want it, there could be a
boycott, and vandals just get the place up to there "code".  It would be
very detrimental to wikipedia.


On 11-10-29 12:27 PM, "Nickanc Wikipedia" <nickanc.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> IMHO, Wikilove is something so important about wikipedia's ethics and
> behaviour that shall be in every wiki. IMHO.
> 
> 2011/10/29 WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers at gmail.com>:
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 15:31:07 -0700
>>> From: Brandon Harris <bharris at wikimedia.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] On certain shallow, American-centered,
>>>        foolish software initiatives backed by WMF
>>> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
>>> Message-ID: <4EAB2D2B.3020803 at wikimedia.org>
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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> On 10/28/11 3:27 PM, Etienne Beaule wrote:
>>>> It's disabled on certain wikis because of technical problems.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>        Oh? I wasn't aware that it had been disabled anywhere as yet.
>>> 
>>>        WikiLove was not rolled out "en mass"; the policy for deployment of
>>> the
>>> tool is that it is by request only, and the requesting wiki must:
>>> 
>>>                a) Make sure the tool is localized (via TranslateWiki);
>>>                b) Make sure they have a local configuration; and
>>>                c) Show community consensus.
>>> 
>>>        So if it was enabled and then *disabled*, I have not heard of this.
>>>  Is
>>> there a bug report I can look to?  Or if you know of a wiki where this
>>> is the case, I can do a search.
>>> 
>>>        Thanks!
>>> 
>>>        -b.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> --
>>> Brandon Harris, Senior Designer, Wikimedia Foundation
>>> 
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>>> 
>>> 
>> Good to hear that wikilove is only going in on wikis where there is
>> consensus for it. Can anyone give me a link to the discussion that
>> established consensus on EN wikipedia? The nearest I could find was
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28miscellaneous%29/Archi
>> ve_33#Thoughts_on_WikiLove.3F
>> 
>> Ta
>> 
>> WerepielChequers
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