Hi dab, I'm glad you didn't experience any problems. May i ask how you conclude that we "survived"? What does it mean? No incidents? No murders? No near-incidents? I'm just trying to understand how you evaluate the success of a (no) policy. Lodewijk
On Mon, Jul 30, 2018, 02:24 DaB. <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello John. > Am 29.07.2018 um 23:40 schrieb John Hendrik Weitzmann: > > Nobody here seems to doubt that we need norms, especially at and around > > events. > > I was at 2 Wikimanias, 5 WikiCons, several workshops and meetings, and > nearly 2 dozen of WMDE-chapter-meeting – and only the very least of them > had a written down policy: And we managed to survive too. Even better, > because we had no unneeded arguments about a policy. > > When I go to a meeting of Wikipedians I want to talk with people. I > don’t want to worry about if my current behavior is in line with the > current policy. I will respect the other people around me, I will try to > not make them uncomfortable, and if there is a problem (for example: > being too loud) I expect that somebody will talk to me, and I’m sure > that there will be a solution. > I don’t need a list of norms that somebody defined who may had a > different cultural background – or even worse: the intersecting set of > what is ok in all cultures (that may/will be the empty set). > > > Good night. > DaB. > > > > > -- > Benutzerseite: [[:w:de:User:DaB.]] > PGP: 0x7CD1E35FD2A3A158 (pka funktioniert) > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimania-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l > >
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