On 17 January 2012 07:52, Elias Friedman <[email protected]> wrote:
> I am dismayed that such a radical undertaking wasn't mentioned on this > list, nor announced by a site banner for logged in users, nor even > canvassed out to user talk pages. This is especially in light of the short > time frame mentioned in the public closing statement - not everyone checks > their watchlist daily (I *assume* a notice was listed there at least!) I'm quite surprised it wasn't discussed on the list - I suspect this may be the perennial problem where something gets discussed on foundation-l rather than wikien-l, and people forget to crosspost between them. (I include myself in this - I really should have noticed. Apologies...) A quick recap of where it's been discussed: After the initial flurry of activity on Jimbo's talkpage (which I agree is a fairly odd place to try and hash out policy) in mid-December gave broad support for some kind of action, there was an RFC at the end of December on a rough time for it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Coordinated_SOPA_reaction_in_early_2012_RfC This led to a second more detailed RFC on what exactly to do, which closed last night - this is the "72 hour" discussion: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative The second RFC was advertised with a central notice active over the past three days for all readers: http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralNotice&method=listNoticeDetail¬ice=enWP+SOPA+RfC as well as the centralised discussion list, AN, etc. The one omission there other than the mailing list seems to have been the Village Pumps; the first RFC was hosted on VP/Proposals, but spamming a notice for the second RFC to the others might have been worthwhile. Something to add to the list for next time we have some mass short-notice discussion like this - though, hopefully, that won't be for another ten years! -- - Andrew Gray [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
