2009/6/29 Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com>: > Wikipedia as an outlet devolves control over information "to the people" - > that is, people outside of hierarchical organizations where control and > responsibility for information is assigned by some measure of merit. > > In 99.99% of cases this works out quite well; in the others, as we can see > just from this thread, laudable goals (saving a life in imminent danger) > would be discarded by those who see the world in absolutes and abhor > compromise. It's a drawback we'll be grappling with for the entire lifespan > of this project, I'm sure, and while we got it right in this case... In at > least some instances, we can expect that views like those held by WJohnson > and geni will prevail.
I don't think it's necessarily that people abhor compromise, it's that we have no way to privately discuss these things and nobody that can really impose a decision without discussion. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
