> Yes. You are right about that. So, may we (insiders) promise not to > have such discourse? :)
It's a problem with mailing versus face to face meeting: it's impossible to see whether you crossed your heart or crossed you fingers while writing that :-P [Disclaimer: It's just Friday evening joke, sorry if somebody minds/objects] On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 11:43 PM, Milos Rancic <mill...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 10:36 PM, Birgitte SB <birgitte...@yahoo.com> wrote: >> As someone who does not think heavy-moderation is a good answer to the >> problem, I think you are missing the point. >> >> These bold/imprudent sort of people have useful contributions in sharing >> their positions. It is the way they ridicule others who have different >> positions that is the problem. BTW this is not limited only to those >> generally critical of WMF, there are supporters of WMF that have the same >> problem. The end result of this behavior is that there less participation >> from people not comfortable with the ridicule. And the people who are less >> likely to participate because of this is not equally spread across cultures. >> So it hurts our outreach and it hurts our general purpose because we end up >> hearing thoughts from a much less diverse group than we might. >> >> Two examples of the tone I find to be such a problem >> >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-August/054235.html >> >> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2009-August/054159.html >> >> I honestly believe that as long as this sort of tone continues to be a >> regular feature here; the overwhelming majority of participants here will be >> Western men. > > Yes. You are right about that. So, may we (insiders) promise not to > have such discourse? :) > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
