Steven Walling wrote: > On Thu, May 19, 2011 at 10:51 AM, Theo10011 <de10...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Also, we need a page on Meta where any future requests could be placed and >> voted on, the current logging page for central notice could eventually be >> replaced with it. > > Just speaking for myself, I think voting to pre-approve every > non-fundraising banner sounds like too much bureaucracy. > > I personally feel that what we need is a guideline and/or banner system that > makes it crystal clear to anyone wanting to run a banner, describing in > detail what is and isn't appropriate including examples. But requiring > voting just to do anything makes me cringe, especially when there are > several technical options for hiding banners. > > We should say what we want as a community, what we don't want, and then > trust people to use good judgement. Just like anything else on a wiki, it's > easy to take down a campaign the instant we don't want it, so if people > don't use good judgement and ignore the guidelines then we can remove a > banner, point to the guideline, and ask they discuss it further.
Yes, very well said. I'd also say that it'd be very good for someone completely uninvolved in the event/project/whatever that's requesting a banner to be the one to give the go-ahead and approve the specific parameters (only on certain projects, certain languages, etc.). People are very passionate about whatever they're working on, so it often becomes easy to think that _everyone_ needs to be informed about whatever it is. Having someone who is uninvolved assess the request for reasonableness is a good way of ensuring some level of sanity. MZMcBride _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l