Does anyone think we can really get an actual "consensus" for anything big anymore on en.wiki?
To take from Beeblebrox on the Signpost not too long ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-29/The_pending_changes_fiasco): "There seems inevitably to come a point in any such attempt where there are simply too many voices, too many nonsensical objections, too much petty bickering to get anything done. This is a growing, systemic problem at Wikipedia, and eventually we are going to have to deal with it." The near-converse applies when developers "boldly" turn relatively minor features on without "community consensus", as seen at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28technical%29/Archive_90#Watchlist_emails . That is, people complain up and down about it. It is impossible to have everyone happy about everything. -MuZemike On 9/13/2011 11:38 AM, David Gerard wrote: > On 13 September 2011 17:35, Gwern Branwen<gwe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> And in turn, I look forward to the study of the effects of this >> change, which will never happen despite all promises before. > > > Apparently just over 50% in favour is "broad consensus". Who knew? > > (Almost as good as the person who told me "we achieved consensus > against that change" and it was, literally, a straw poll with two "no" > and one "yes".) > > > - d. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l