Is wikitech-l really the best place for this discussion? -- Lewis Cawte (Lcawte)
On 11 August 2014 18:44, pi zero <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 10, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Ricordisamoa < > [email protected]> > wrote: > > > <hopeless>I'd really like to hear Jimbo's opinion on the > matter</hopeless> > > > A few years ago, Jimbo came by en.wn, and we were trying to explain to him > how our project infrastructure works. Understand, a central part of our > concept at en.wn is that the community chooses reviewers in whom we place > an enormous amount of trust. Of course I can't know what the exchange > looked like from Jimbo's side, but from where I was sitting, it appeared > that as we were explaining to him how this works, at first he was > incredulous we were actually putting that much trust in the hands of users > merely selected by the community, and then, when he did realize what we > were entrusting to reviewers, he reckoned we had to be insane. As I say, I > don't know what it looked like from his perspective; but it sure did look > like that from mine. > > This attitude, of not trusting the community to select people worthy of > trust, seems to be a sort of conceptual trap, that's easy to fall into, > probably without even noticing, and hard to get out of. One suspects it's > got a bunch of folks at the Foundation in its grip. It makes a striking > contrast with "assume good faith" --- mind you, I don't subscribe to AGF, > in fact at en.wn we have instead "Never assume"; but one of the subtler > reasons I disapprove of AGF is that I think it actually transmutes, in > practice, into "trust no-one". > > Pi zero > _______________________________________________ > Wikitech-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
