On 26 February 2014 13:51, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe it's a cultural issue, does e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_letter have a geopolitically limited point of view? Open letters are a common tool of *discussion* with the public (= community in our case) in the corners of the world that I know best.
As a major unpaid Commons contributor, I find these emotive and political emails to lists and open letters elsewhere confusing and rather wasteful of the good faith volunteer effort behind them.
If anyone wants to create meaningful and lasting change to Commons, then please create a Request for Comment on Commons[1] rather than making a fuss and criticising Commons (volunteer) administrators in non-Commons discussion channels, which most Commons volunteers are unlikely to either notice or care much about.
For Chapters, I suggest you check who among your active volunteers are most active on Commons[2] and ask them to help engage or create discussion about policy and guideline changes. If you cannot find anyone close to your chapter that is active and engaged on Commons, perhaps you should change that situation before firing off official letters.
Links: 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RFC 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Userlist
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