[Foundation-l] Show community consensus for Wikilove

Ryan Kaldari rkaldari at wikimedia.org
Mon Oct 31 18:02:47 UTC 2011


As better explained by Erik, the deployment to en.wiki was not done with 
community consensus. The purpose of the deployment, as I understand it, 
was two-fold:
* To address one of the main reasons cited for people leaving en.wiki 
(lack of positive feedback)
* To experiment with new methods of user communication
As mentioned by Erik, the feature is still considered experimental. 
Ironically, the main thing we've learned from WikiLove is that our 
existing interface for user talk page interaction is pretty abysmal 
(judging by the large number of people using WikiLove to post simple 
questions or comments).

Ryan Kaldari

On 10/31/11 6:54 AM, Nathan wrote:
> I see Brandon replied to this thread several times; did anyone notice
> if the question in the OP (if community consensus is required for
> implementation, where was it demonstrated for en.wp) was answered?
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