On 18/12/2014 10:24, Dan S wrote:
Hi Matthijs,
The DWG email used the word "consensus" inappropriately, since
consensus means everyone agreeing, and we didn't. However, consensus
is essentially impossible in big wiki communities like ours, so let's
assume there's a relative meaning of the term ;)
Maybe I've been using the word inappropriately all these years but I've
always thought that "concensus" meant "general agreement" - the idea
that "we, as a community, generally think this" not that "absolutely
everyone agrees with every part of something 100%". It doesn't mean "10
people who could be bothered ticked a box on a wiki page". It means,
"we, as a community, have thought about it, discussed it, and although
some people may disagree, the general feeling of the community is X".
My DWG mail to Matthijs (part of which was selectively quoted to this
list) contained a number of suggestions about how to best to proceed.
These included better explaining why a change now rather than later was
beneficial, and why some of the other suggestions raised last time
wouldn't work for the problem as he sees it. It also covered the issue
of how to ensure that new mappers use the "correct" tags. Thinking
about these other issues is actually far more important than whether or
not to do X mechanical edit.
Best Regards,
Andy Townsend
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