On 2015-12-08 17:57, Andreas Kolbe wrote:
I like that post, Milos. :)
The other day someone suggested to me in a chat Wikipedia should have a
function like Skype, or IM, so people could chat about stuff privately.
I
think it's a great idea. (Obviously you would have to make it so people
can
only instant-message you after you've accepted their contact request.)
At the same time, I have a feeling such a proposal made on wiki would
sink
like a lead duck. On Wikipedia, having friends and talking to them
PRIVATELY on a Wikipedia feature where (shock! horror!) others are
EXCLUDED
and can't see what you're saying elicits dire fears of "canvassing",
"cabal" and other such words (while people still generally accept that
it
is okay for contributors to have email correspondence, or talk to
someone
in the pub).
I am not even saying that such fears would be unjustified – the Eastern
European Mailing List arbitration case comes to mind – but it is
somehow a
weird culture. And as Milos says, all of that tends to evaporate when
you
are actually standing in a corridor at an event, or having your lunch
and
chatting.
Andreas
I think as soon as there is no reference to this chat as a
decision-making venue (like "We have chatted and I unblocked them", or,
even worse, "blocked them"), it should be ok, and might be even accepted
as an on-wiki suggestion (we have irc anyway, and many people are there
24h/24), but then of course someone would need to lobby it, organize
RfC, closing etc.
Cheers
Yaroslav
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