[Foundation-l] Board resolutions on controversial content and images of identifiable people

Sat Aug 27 08:04:27 UTC 2011

I am not sure if your wording implies that I am being excessively negative  
or skeptical. But yes, I very definitely think it should be resisted at  
every stage of implementation. What else can we do, if the people who  
should be providing services to us, try to run things for us. the community  
is sometimes wrong; the board is sometimes right. I would rather go wrong  
with the community , than right with the board.T, there is no other way of  
preserving the values of independence and spontaneity which are the essence  
of our projects. The distinctiveness of Wikipedia is that we are a  
community-directed project, and no person or group--even groups of our own  
choosing-- has the authority to lead us. There are no doubt limitations of  
what such a mode of organization can achieve, but we are here to see how  
far we can get with this way of working; we have already gotten further  
than anyone could have predicted, and perhaps we can get much further. I do  
not have the knowledge to formally speculate about social organization. But  
what I do know is that we have an idea, and we should pursue it as far as  
it can take us. Perhaps conventional wisdom is wrong, and we can maintain  
ourselves as we originally intended. The idea is very simple, and classic:  
trust the community; trust each other; do not trust any organized group  
withing us or speaking for us.

On Aug 26, 2011 11:12am, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 26 August 2011 16:06, David Goodman dggenwp at gmail.com> wrote:

> > This labeling is proposed to be done on the basis not of the regular

> > commons categories, but of special ones designed for the purpose; not

> > on the regular WP editors, but a special committee.

> Ooh, *really*. Then this initiative will be bitterly resisted at every  
> turn.

> - d.

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