Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-02-25 Thread Tim Landscheidt
Leila Zia wrote: > […] > On a separate note to those of you who contribute to technical spaces and > are not happy about how some aspects have gone: > Matthew and a few other people have been trying /really hard/ to make > Wikimedia's technical spaces better. You know that

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-02-25 Thread Leila Zia
Hi MZMcBride, On Sat, Feb 25, 2017 at 11:15 AM, MZMcBride wrote: > > > Matthew Flaschen wrote: > >English Wikipedia policy is clear > >(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Meatpuppetry): > >"In votes or vote-like discussions, new users may be disregarded or

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Draft Code of Conduct for Technical Spaces

2017-02-25 Thread MZMcBride
Pine W wrote: >When I last spent some time looking at the proposal, I too felt that the >contributions indicated that the policy had far too little community >influence. *However*, if you'll entertain a hypothetical with me for a >moment, let's suppose that the status quo continues and there is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] proposal for regular surveys of community opinion

2017-02-25 Thread Rogol Domedonfors
An interesting idea, and if it reduces the survey load on the community that would be good. But one should never survey for the sake of it. Any proposed survey question should be able to meet the test "What will you do with the answer to this question?" In my experience, the response to that is