On Sep 1, 2014, at 8:45 AM, Todd Allen toddmallen@gmail.com wrote:
That's contradicted by, among other things, ACTRIAL as mentioned above. The en.wp community came to a clear consensus for a major change, and the WMF shrugged and said "Nah, rather not."
That's... Not exactly what I remember happening there. What I remember was that a pretty good number (~500) of enwiki community members came together and agreed on a problem, and one plan for how to fix it and asked the WMF to implement it. The WMF evaluated it, and saw a threat to a basic project value. WMF then asked "what's the problem you're actually trying to solve?", and proposed and built a set of tools to directly address that problem without compromising the core value of openness. And it seems to have worked out pretty well because I haven't heard a ton of complaints about that problem since.
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