On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Birgitte SB <[email protected]> wrote: > As someone who does not think heavy-moderation is a good answer to the > problem, I think you are missing the point. > > These bold/imprudent sort of people have useful contributions in sharing > their positions. It is the way they ridicule others who have different > positions that is the problem. BTW this is not limited only to those > generally critical of WMF, there are supporters of WMF that have the same > problem. The end result of this behavior is that there less participation > from people not comfortable with the ridicule. And the people who are less > likely to participate because of this is not equally spread across cultures. > So it hurts our outreach and it hurts our general purpose because we end up > hearing thoughts from a much less diverse group than we might. > > Two examples of the tone I find to be such a problem > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-August/054235.html > > http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-August/054159.html > > I honestly believe that as long as this sort of tone continues to be a > regular feature here; the overwhelming majority of participants here will be > Western men.
Yes. You are right about that. So, may we (insiders) promise not to have such discourse? :) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
