Does anyone think we can really get an actual "consensus" for anything
big anymore on en.wiki?
To take from Beeblebrox on the Signpost not too long ago
(
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-29/The_pe…):
"There seems inevitably to come a point in any such attempt where there
are simply too many voices, too many nonsensical objections, too much
petty bickering to get anything done. This is a growing, systemic
problem at Wikipedia, and eventually we are going to have to deal with it."
The near-converse applies when developers "boldly" turn relatively minor
features on without "community consensus", as seen at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive…
. That is, people complain up and down about it. It is impossible to
have everyone happy about everything.
-MuZemike
On 9/13/2011 11:38 AM, David Gerard wrote:
On 13 September 2011 17:35, Gwern
Branwen<gwern0(a)gmail.com> wrote:
And in turn, I look forward to the study of the
effects of this
change, which will never happen despite all promises before.
Apparently just over 50% in favour is "broad consensus". Who knew?
(Almost as good as the person who told me "we achieved consensus
against that change" and it was, literally, a straw poll with two "no"
and one "yes".)
- d.
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