On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:16 PM, private musings <[email protected]>wrote:
> > I believe that this is an example of principle overriding pragmatism in a > way that has great potential to cause the project harm - both in reputation > and utility. If you're reading this and are a bit confuddled about the > parameters of discussion in this area - here are some handy bullet points; > > I recall hearing this very argument several years ago when wikipedia was some orders of magnitude smaller of course the empiric evidence shows otherwise, wikipedia grew beyond anyone's predictions in spite the "if you don't do X, things we downhill", "ikipedia will lose all reputatin", "wikipedia will be harmed", "wikipedia will become useless" where X ranges could e "censor nudity", "change the sysop election system" or "stop anon edits", "delete pokemon" or whatever the unsourmountable-obstacle-of-the-week is. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
