https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14281
--- Comment #29 from Chris McKenna <[email protected]> 2012-09-08 12:33:24 UTC --- The "Repainting the bikeshed" analogy doesn't quite fit here as this isn't a case of the bikeshed being green and some people arguing that it should be orange. What we have is a bikeshed with a big sign on it, the text of the sign is offensive to many people who see it. While most visitors don't see the bikeshed, some do and of those many will be offended. Although most staff don't care about the text of the sign one way or the other, there is a small group that want it changed to something that doesn't offend visitors (and staff). Most people simply say "if you want to change it, go ahead and do it, we don't mind.". If anybody could change the sign it would have been changed long ago and everyone would be happy. However, only site maintenance staff can change the sign. When asked to change the sign, one of the maintenance staff once said "I wrote it like that years ago as a small joke, so meh". Since then (itself several years ago now) none of the maintenance staff have refused to talk about or answer questions about anything to do with the sign. They won't even say whether changing the sign is a simple two minute job with a paintbrush or would require a complete structural rebuild of the entire shed. Also, it is forgotten by most people that it is not only our bikeshed with this sign on it. Our organisation also supplies copies of our site buildings to others who want to run similar organisations, and their bikesheds also contain this sign with the same wording on it that some find offensive. Personally, I don't find the wording offensive but regognise that other people do. As there is no reason to have the offensive wording, I think it should be changed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
