On 10/07/14 15:53, Brion Vibber wrote:
Perhaps it's time to stop calling self-selected surveys of a tiny subset of
our user base "community consensus".
The vast majority of our user base never logs in, never edits, and never
even hears about these RfC pages. Those are the people we're making an
encyclopedia for.
-- brion
And those who do log in, edit, and comment on RfCs generally do so with
the understanding, on some level, that everything they do, that the
entire encyclopedia, is for the readers, because without an audience
there would be nothing. They know their audience, they interact directly
with this audience on the talkpages and in email, and indeed they often
use the site exactly as this audience would, simply taking things a step
further to edit as well.
So when they speak for the users who never log in, never edit, and never
comment, do not discount them. No more than you discount yourself when
you try to speak for the users who never log in, never edit, and never
comment.
-I
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