On a practical note, we have sufficient difficulty in getting consensus on policies in individual encyclopedias!
David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 4:16 PM, Ting Chen <[email protected]> wrote: > Amir Elisha Aharoni wrote: >> On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 21:09, Yoni Weiden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> The question is - shouldn't there be one set of standards for all >>> Wikipedias? >>> >> >> I do think that there should be one set of standards for all >> languages. But it may be hard to enforce it on an existing community. >> > No, because we are not able to reach a concensus across all the language > communities. Thus each project community should reach their own > concensus. Personally I find this diversity also a very good thing > because one can always get ideas from other projects, good ones to > follow, bad ones to avoid or to change. >> WMF can try and enforce copyright policy or maybe Biographies of >> Living People policy, because these issues may have severe legal >> implications, but it is next to impossible to enforce Notability or >> Verifiability policies. >> > correct. And in the example BLP the resolution of the board is > purposefully so soft. It only urges the communities to notice the > problem and to take care about it, it didn't say what each individual > community must do, in respect of the autonomy of the projects. >> Few he-wikipedians care about it, but he.wikipedia did quite well for >> several years without a clear written policy on any of the following: >> Living People, Notability, Original Research and Verifiability. All >> decisions on these matters are made ad hoc. To our friends from >> en.wikipedia it must seem surreal :) >> > No, this is the ideal state. Actually I don't like written rules. Rules > are dead things and often they don't really fit to the actual situation. > If one can discuss every case and reach a concensus without a fix rule > this is for me the best case. But this only works in a relatively small > community and doesn't fit a very big and diverse community. > > -- > Ting > > Ting's Blog: http://wingphilopp.blogspot.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
