On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Gerard Meijssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hoi, > All projects are started with consent of the board. I take it that the board > has the final say on blocking / removing projects. I can imagine that the > WMF office / organisation takes this decision on there own accord. These are > the two who have the power to establish facts. > Thanks, > GerardM > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Michael Everson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > >> The powers that be, Gerard? >> >> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com
Because I'm sure the Board will be *thrilled* to get involved in a dispute that involves nationalism, factionalism, complicated linguistics, hurt feelings, confusion about what's "true", and heated debate and assumptions of poor faith on all sides. Come on. How is the Board supposed to determine what the best outcome is when the community members involved can't get anywhere near consensus? (Or can they? I confess to not reading these threads closely). Our Board members work hard on behalf of the projects, but they are not specially endowed with the ability to second-guess the ISO, to make decisions for community members about what to call the language they speak, or (alas!) to prevent deep-rooted drama about such matters. It's easy to think that things would be so much easier if only the right person was in charge so *someone* could make a decision... but that is not the way our projects work. Instead, (as you know, Gerard) people step up to work on the issues that interest them. Sure, the Board could choose to nuke all the Wikipedias where people can't agree on what language they are written in. But that's not so much of a solution as a "please shut up about this issue already!" statement.* -- phoebe * Which, I grant you, as an uninvolved party seems pretty darn appealing some days. p.s. Aren't some of the wikis in two or more scripts? I recall that at least a couple of them have multiple tabs at the top where you can switch between scripts if you like. Is that somehow not an option in this case? _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
