On 27 August 2011 09:04, <dgge...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Aug 26, 2011 11:12am, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On 26 August 2011 16:06, David Goodman dgge...@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. > 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. That's what I meant - plans for a special committee, and not a community decision, had somehow escaped my notice. That's just a ridiculously, amazingly, bad idea. The community is frequently on crack, but a special committee for this job can only be worse. Is it in fact the case that the job is to be handed to a special committee? If so, who thought this was a good idea and why? - d. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l