On 10 July 2014 22:21, Juergen Fenn <schneeschme...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I don't intend to bother you when you are making an encyclopædia, > Brion, but if this is the stance the Wikimedia Foundation takes it's > time for me to leave the project. I expect the Wikimedia Foundation to > respect a community consensus. If you think you have another community > of crowdsourcing workers then go ahead. I won't tolerate this. > > Regards, > Jürgen. > The reallit is that an RFC edited by 131 people total is rather borderline in terms of community consensus with regards to new features and significantly lower than [[Wikipedia:VisualEditor/Default State RFC]]. There is also the factor that any new design results in a certain degree of backlash. Sure the design has problems (I've just noticed that links to images will break if the page they are on moves) but so did monobook and vector when they were first released some of the issues have been fixed and most people have got used to using skins other than classic and don't complain that much. There is also the political side that English wikipedia has resisted several fairly major changes. Pending changes, Visual editor and article rating. The opposition to flow is already starting to dig in. While I'd hope the Visual editor mess isn't held against us there is the issue that a pattern is starting to emerge. The WMF probably can't afford to lose another public facing project to English Wikipedia intransigence. -- geni _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
