[Foundation-l] Community consensus for software changes (Re: Show community consensus for Wikilove)

[David Levy]

Erik Moeller wrote:

> As a matter of general practice, the Wikimedia Foundation aims to be
> responsive to the community both before and after the deployment of
> software, but it doesn't obtain community consensus before deploying
> software which it would like to deploy on its sites and services, nor
> does it necessarily write or deploy software changes if a consensus to
> do so exists.

Brandon Harris explicitly stated that "the policy for deployment of
the tool is that it is by request only, and the requesting wiki must
... show community consensus."

http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2011-October/070062.html

That leaves three possibilities:

A) Community consensus was demonstrated at the English Wikipedia.
B) The WikiLove deployment policy was violated.
C) The above statement by Brandon Harris is incorrect.

David Levy