On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Brian Salter-Duke <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:05:43PM +0800, H wrote: >> Brian, >> It is usually the responsibility of the proposer to notify the >> community. I am very surprised that no one did.
It was added to the here a day later. http://simple.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Bulletin/News&diff=1127389&oldid=1122625 > They notified the simple community but did not mention that you had to > "prove" yourslef before commenting. The requirement often used is that users need to have a edit on one of the projects _before_ the commencement of the vote begins on meta. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposals_for_closing_projects#cite_note-0 >> Very early on I have asked the proposer to join the community and help >> fix the problems, and later again asked them to go back to the >> beginning to the original proposal of wikipedia:simple: > > I noticed that. Very sensible. > >> However you cannot talk when everybody has already got er finger on er >> trigger ready to shoot their {{support}} or {{oppose}}. >> >> It may be an interesting idea requiring a discussion on the local >> project to close it. However, meta is useful as a cross-wiki >> platform, and most closures requests are about inactive wikis, which >> are much less contraversial, and in which case "discussion on the >> local project" wouldn't work. > > I agree. This discussion is quite different from a discussion on a small > wp that never got off the ground. It matters. Another example of discussion that matters is the discussion that mostly focused on English Wikiquote: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum/On_disbanding_Wikiquote It is interesting to note that the Wikiquote discussion was closed because there were plans to clean it up, however the 25 longest pages are the same pages from 5 months ago. http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:LongPages http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikimedia_Forum/On_disbanding_Wikiquote&diff=1180109&oldid=1180071 -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
