> --- On Mon, 4/20/09, Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From: Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Principle and pragmatism with nudity and sexual >> content >> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> >> Date: Monday, April 20, 2009, 3:39 AM > >> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:19 AM, private musings <thepmacco...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Here's a few questions about the foundation's role in >>> ensuring the projects are responsible media hosts - >> Can the foundation play >>> a role in discussing and establishing things like what >> it means to be >>> 'collegial' and 'collaborative' on the various >> projects? Can the foundation >>> offer guidance, and dare I say it 'rules' for the >> boundaries of behaviour? >>> Is there space, beyond limiting project activities to >> legality, to offer >>> firm leadership and direction in project governance? >>> >>> I'm hoping the answer to all of the above is a careful >> 'yes'. >> >> I believe the answer to the above, as worded, may be a >> careful 'no'. >> These are important decisions, and should be made and >> improved over >> time, but I believe it is the community's role to make them >> - and the >> foundation's to help provide interface or infrastructure to >> support >> the community's resolutions. Feel free to elaborate >> if you disagree. >> >> A strong and sustainable group within the community can >> absolutely >> work towards and establish the definitions and guidance you >> suggest. >> Past discussions have generally been useful, and not >> spiteful, but >> never pushed through to a resolution at least on meta and >> en:wp. >> > on 4/20/09 10:03 AM, Birgitte SB at birgitte...@yahoo.com wrote:
> I second this. Does anyone really believe it is even possible to set one > standard of what it means to be 'collegial' and 'collaborative' for all > cultures? These things are not absolute values and each community needs to > work out what standards are most pragmatic for it's members. There is no > shortcut or appeal to authority that can solve this for en.WP. en.WP has to > do the work and find these answers from within. > I agree with you, Brigitte, it is up to the en.WP Community to establish its own common-ground culture. However, this is no small task since you are dealing with a multitude of individuals who have established cultures of their own. I believe that common ground should lie in the simple question: How do you treat another human being? Marc Riddell _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
