Gerard Meijssen wrote: > As the discussions about all these plans is going to be in English, it will > be very much "others" telling communities how to behave, how to move > forward. The notion that policies and guidelines are good is offset by > people who found themselves not or no longer welcome and moved away. As this > is already true for English language projects, you may appreciate that the > notion that "the" rules and guidelines are beneficial is just wrong when you > try to project them on other projects. >
That's why the most broadly applicable rules need to be very few and to be very broadly flexible. Anglo-cultural dominance is far more insidious than anglophonic dominance. > When you want to transcend local policies and guidelines, you have to start > thinking on a more global level. On this level there are big and small > Wikipedias, Wiktionaries, Wikibooks etc. There are projects that serve a > global need and are the victim of local constraints like Commons and also > Meta. We are not organised in a way that gives priority to the more global > issues and consequently we are very much unaware of issues that the "others" > face and why our "local" issues can be irrelevant elsewhere. Given this lack > of awareness there are few low hanging fruits because we forgot to bring the > bees to the orchard. When the hive mind becomes too crowded the bees set off to found new colonies. Maybe we should be encouraging more forks. Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
