On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 12:42 PM, Charles Matthews<charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > Thomas Dalton wrote: >> Well said. That debate was resolved back in the days when we actually >> reached consensus occasionally! There are too many people for that to >> work, these days. However hard you try, you never find a solution that >> everyone will accept. >> > Hmmm, that seems to assume consensus = no yelling, rather than 80% > support or whatever. As if special interest groups can always block > change. (Now that rings a bell, but we need to be careful about the > retrospective history.) > > Charles
4 out of 5 Wikipedians agree, consensus = 80%. What exactly counts as "consensus" is another industrial-sized can of worms. I think we slipped into "rough consensus" long ago, and are now drifting into supermajorities as a rough substitute, with occasional exceptions. Lots of people wanting something doesn't necessarily make them right, though it's often a decent guide to it... -Kat -- Your donations keep Wikipedia online: http://donate.wikimedia.org/en Wikimedia, Press: k...@wikimedia.org * Personal: k...@mindspillage.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage * (G)AIM:Mindspillage mindspillage or mind|wandering on irc.freenode.net * email for phone _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
