On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 2:06 AM, Thomas Morton <morton.tho...@googlemail.com > wrote:
> > > > 1) WikiLove has been enabled on Swedish, Malayalam, Hungarian, Hebrew, > > Arabic, and Hindi Wikipedia, as well as Commons, all on request of the > > respective project communities. > > > > > Uh oh - criticism time... > > WikiLove was developed supposedly to address one of the major problems of > English Wikipedia (a problem which also affects other Wiki's to a larger or > lesser extent). It is an example of a solution being developed by those > without a full understanding of the problem (which is no criticism of the > devs involved; there is no reason they should understand the issues in > depth). Wikilove was produced by Ryan Kaldari, and active Wikimedian and participant on this list as well as a staffer, pretty much on his own time (from what I understood as he explained it to me). I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm off point, there. I don't think he was out of touch with the issues in depth... > It was ten deployed with minimal discussion, once again > demonstrating the lack of links between the developers and the community > (because just about anyone could have pointed out it would have been > controversial). > It was deployed with minimal discussion, but I still wouldn't assign the blame to devs not understanding the community. You're making some pretty big assumptions. -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l