On 04/06/2013 09:16 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) wrote:
> By the way, it would be lovely not to call communication like
> nationalization... sometimes I see people coming to communities saying
> they're socializing something and it feels weird. ;-) (Especially as
> it's false good news.)
>
> https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/socialize
> (transitive) To take into collective or governmental ownership
>
> Nemo
Nemo, I have sympathy for you here -- it took a while for me to get
used to the use of "socialize" in the way the Wikimedia communities use
it. I think socializing is more than just "communication" implies,
though; "communication" sometimes implies a simple broadcast, where
"socializing" implies:
* this is a process, not a one-time global message
* presenting the reasons for a change, not just saying it's going to happen
* thinking from the perspective of the people affected and asking them
relevant questions
* learning new facts and perspectives from the affected communities and
using them to modify plans
* negotiation
So I am resigned to using "socialization" because I don't think there's
a better succinct phrase for this.
--
Sumana Harihareswara
Engineering Community Manager
Wikimedia Foundation
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