Wait, aren't the chapters composed from people from the wikimedia community?
Also, didn't you guys stop by a second to think the chapter thoroughly discussed the contents of the letter with its members, which may vote in favor or against publishing it? And if it is on Meta, is open to discussion, no? Finally, in Venezuela we say "el que se pica es porque ají come". No need to take it personally if you are not among those "certain" Commons admins, right? Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: Fæ <[email protected]> Date: 26/02/2014 18:46 (GMT+02:00) To: Wikimedia Mailing List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Open letter on open letters (Was: Open letter from Wikimedia Argentina regarding URAA) On 26 February 2014 13:51, Federico Leva (Nemo) <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe it's a cultural issue, does e.g. > <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_letter> have a geopolitically limited > point of view? Open letters are a common tool of *discussion* with the > public (= community in our case) in the corners of the world that I know > best. As a major unpaid Commons contributor, I find these emotive and political emails to lists and open letters elsewhere confusing and rather wasteful of the good faith volunteer effort behind them. If anyone wants to create meaningful and lasting change to Commons, then please create a Request for Comment on Commons[1] rather than making a fuss and criticising Commons (volunteer) administrators in non-Commons discussion channels, which most Commons volunteers are unlikely to either notice or care much about. For Chapters, I suggest you check who among your active volunteers are most active on Commons[2] and ask them to help engage or create discussion about policy and guideline changes. If you cannot find anyone close to your chapter that is active and engaged on Commons, perhaps you should change that situation before firing off official letters. Links: 1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:RFC 2. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae/Userlist Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
