Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
I don't think this is an accurate characterization
of what happened at
all. No one shouted down anyone. What happened was that there was a
big discussion that we on the board judged to end in a consensus; we
attempted to formulate the consensus as a proposal and approve it so
that we could all move forward together on the next steps.
My general decision-making objection is that in all cases, it should be:
1) Wikipedian discussion
2) Determination that there is a consensus
3) Statement that there appears to be a consensus, and propose something
based on that
4) Wait for comments on that proposed consensus-based whatever-it-is
5) Implement it
There doesn't appear to have been an interest in 3-4 here: instead it
was straight from "board determines there is a consensus" to "board
implements", which should *never* happen---it should go from "board
determines there is a consensus" to "board *proposes* an action to the
community."
-Mark