2009/8/18 Kat Walsh <[email protected]>: > 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...
I have had people tell me "you can't do that, we reached consensus otherwise" and I go look and it's a straw poll that's *literally* two people voting for, one against. So it's always useful to check what someone's calling "consensus." - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
