On 13 May 2013 08:18, Keegan Peterzell <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:03 AM, James Alexander <[email protected]>wrote: > That's a bit relative, James. The active folk on this mailing list make > for a pretty good cross section of thoughts/feelings/opinions of the > movement. I've refrained from this discussion and will continue to do so > on specifics, because it's politics and that's not something I do on > Wikipedia/Wikimedia.
On this, I have watched this thread with interest. I started following it when sitting in a chapter board meeting all day on Saturday. From the outset I knew I would not want to make any specific comment and get sucked into another dramah, I have too big a pile of these already anyway. There are lessons to be learned here. I continue to hope that the WMF can find a way of learning from these experiences, particularly if they set a long term pattern, in addition to answering the specific questions about this incident. For me, I certainly have learned that for the other organizations I am involved with that control wikis and have the wonderful luxury of working through the good will of unpaid volunteer admins and bureaucrats, the policies that apply should only change with careful and recorded consultation, even if I am personally sure that there are very clear legal or excellent good and important or urgent governance reasons to make changes. For those on Monday morning finding a little egg left on their faces, perhaps it is time to brew some freshly ground coffee, make some hot buttered toast and turn this into a productive breakfast? Stay mellow. ;-) PS I'm not attempting to claim any high ground here, so before anyone points it out, yes I'm pretty darn flawed myself. Sometimes I do learn from mistakes though, I have a lifetime of foolishness to regret and learn from. Cheers, Fae -- [email protected] http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
