2007/1/16, Rob Church <robchur(a)gmail.com>om>:
On 16/01/07, Brion Vibber <brion(a)pobox.com> wrote:
I can't say words without having some
God-given "policy" read into them.
The English Wikipedia took comments you and I made about being
sensible and not worrying *too much* in a previous thread, and turned
it into a guideline;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Don%27t_worry_about_performance.
I assume, or hope, that these people still know when to suspend
guidelines. I think most of them got it.
That guideline page has been complemented with some more quotes from this
discussion. If you find that strange, maybe you should check a couple of the
policy pages.
From Wikipedia:Consensus on English Wikipedia (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Consensus#Exceptions ):
"Declarations from Jimmy Wales, the Board, or the Developers, particularly
for copyright, legal issues, or server load, are usually held to have policy
status (see Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines)."
From Wikipedia:Policies and guidelines on English
Wikipedia, regarding how
policies are started
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Policies_and_guidelines#How_are_poliā¦)
:
"Declarations from Jimmy Wales, the Board, or the Developers, particularly
for copyright, legal issues, or server load."
So unless the word "declaration" is defined, it actually says on two enwiki
policy pages that pretty much anything you guys say on server load matters
should be made into policy/guideline pages at once. It is at least very easy
to interpret it that way. The guys who do not like this maybe could take
some measures against it. *hint*
/habj