On 17 January 2012 07:52, Elias Friedman <elipongo(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am dismayed that such a radical undertaking
wasn't mentioned on this
list, nor announced by a site banner for logged in users, nor even
canvassed out to user talk pages. This is especially in light of the short
time frame mentioned in the public closing statement - not everyone checks
their watchlist daily (I *assume* a notice was listed there at least!)
I'm quite surprised it wasn't discussed on the list - I suspect this
may be the perennial problem where something gets discussed on
foundation-l rather than wikien-l, and people forget to crosspost
between them. (I include myself in this - I really should have
noticed. Apologies...)
A quick recap of where it's been discussed:
After the initial flurry of activity on Jimbo's talkpage (which I
agree is a fairly odd place to try and hash out policy) in
mid-December gave broad support for some kind of action, there was an
RFC at the end of December on a rough time for it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28proposals%29#Coordin…
This led to a second more detailed RFC on what exactly to do, which
closed last night - this is the "72 hour" discussion:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:SOPA_initiative
The second RFC was advertised with a central notice active over the
past three days for all readers:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:CentralNotice&metho…
as well as the centralised discussion list, AN, etc.
The one omission there other than the mailing list seems to have been
the Village Pumps; the first RFC was hosted on VP/Proposals, but
spamming a notice for the second RFC to the others might have been
worthwhile. Something to add to the list for next time we have some
mass short-notice discussion like this - though, hopefully, that won't
be for another ten years!
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk