Venerability policy? That's a new one. Verifiability policy. (Spellcheck is not always a wiki-lawyer's best friend.)
Pine On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Pine W <[email protected]> wrote: > Speaking generally, guidance can be helpful even if it's not a policy. > English Wikipedia has similar ways of organizing information and how-to > guides. Some guidance documents are categorized as essays, some as > guidelines, and some as policies. It's worth noting that enforcement is, > somewhat counter-intuitively, not tied directly to the "authority level" of > a document. For example, the venerability policy is frequently violated but > generally people are rarely blocked for violating it, while the exceptions > to norms that are tolerated under "Ignore All Rules" have become thin as > Wikipedia's complexity has grown and practices have become more detailed > and standardized. (I believe that Aaron Halfaker has done some research on > that last point.) > > Pine > > Pine > > > On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 1:24 AM, Rogol Domedonfors <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> If there's not going to be anything to implement, how do you see this as >> having an effect on anything? What will be done differently or better? >> Why should anyone be doing any work on it? How will we know whether or >> not >> it has been a success, and whther or not the time effort and effort was >> well-spent? >> >> "Rogol" >> >> On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Keegan Peterzell < >> [email protected] >> > wrote: >> >> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 3:13 PM, Rogol Domedonfors < >> [email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > >> > > Is the *Technical Collaboration Guidance* >> > > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Technical_Collaboration_Guidance still >> > > actively under development? >> > >> > >> > Yes, there are internal stakeholder discussions still underway. >> > >> > >> > > There seems to have been no discussion of any >> > > substance since January. Is there an intention to bring the >> discussion >> > to >> > > a close >> > >> > >> > Eventually the plan is to remove the draft tag, yes. >> > >> > >> > > and to implement the guidance? >> > >> > >> > As guidance, there is nothing to "implement" as you say. As has been >> > discussed on the talk page, these are not rules to be placed into >> effect. >> > This is a guidance manual from the TC team. The guidance is available >> for >> > teams to check if they'd like a written resource for the type of work >> that >> > Community Liaisons generally do. >> > >> > Further questions are welcome on the talk page, where discussions can >> be >> > properly captured on-wiki. >> > >> > -- >> > Keegan Peterzell >> > Technical Collaboration Specialist >> > Wikimedia Foundation >> > _______________________________________________ >> > 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 >> > > _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
