8. Jun 2018 08:29 by frede...@remote.org <mailto:frede...@remote.org>:
> Some people say that while this may be true, the time has now come to > get rid of the old ways that got us where we are, and change tack to > something more conservative. This is a valid argument but I am not > convinced; a lot of innovation is still going on with tags, and strict > enforcement would run the risk of killing that. > I would start from easy wins, for example why we have both FIXME and fixme tags?Why we still have wikipedia:pl, wikipedia:en duplicating wikipedia keys? Note: in both cases there is an ongoing work to purge this tags (without harming data)in Poland, I plan to propose later a worldwide mechanical edit. Even easy stuff like that is complicated to do properly. > there *were* competing projects which got stuck trying > to define the one true set of keys and values that would work for > everything > Are you aware about some post-mortem analysis of this competition? It is very interesting for me to read why some communities thrive and why some die. For wikipedia "Almost Wikipedia: What Eight Early Online Collaborative Encyclopedia Projects Reveal about the Mechanisms of Collective Action" was quite interesting ( it suggested that many competing projects (a) focused too much on technical issues and got bogged down by work on a specialized software (b) tried too many new things at once, while "encyclopedia" was recognizable).
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