On Sep 1, 2014 3:21 PM, "Philippe Beaudette" pbeaudette@wikimedia.org wrote:
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.
I don't agree with that assessment, but it's possible I'm missing some elements of the process. Philippe, any chance you could full in the summary with a few specifics, and maybe some links?
Pete