[Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia

Wed Dec 14 23:13:33 UTC 2011

Ask for a ''consensus way'' in decisions like that one tends to humor.

I can compare asking a consensus for presidential elections. 

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> From: mateus.nobre at live.co.uk
> To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:10:32 +0300
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia
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> 
> 87% is more than sufficient.
> 
> En.wikipedia (not that one, I'm native of ptwiki and I voted in it too) it's like a whole country.
> 
> It's simple impossible to reach a consensus in a place where have 500 people voting.
> Sometimes polls are the only way. I'm not saying the best. It's the only.
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> > Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2011 23:00:38 +0000
> > From: dgerard at gmail.com
> > To: foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How SOPA will hurt the free web and Wikipedia
> > 
> > On 14 December 2011 21:57, Kim Bruning <kim at bruning.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 05:43:03PM +0000, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > 
> > >> Presumably
> > >> there will be a more formal process to decide whether we actually go
> > >> ahead with it - has that started somewhere? If not, has anyone at
> > >> least figured out what form that process will take?
> > 
> > > Strictly speaking, the straw poll there is sufficient, unless people bring
> > > up true blockers.
> > 
> > 
> > The poll is at 87% or so (taking a straight count of support vs.
> > oppose from the page). Should it be considered sufficient to
> > demonstrate overwhelming consensus, the precise course of action has
> > not AFAIK been determined.
> > 
> > 
> > - d.
> > 
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