Talk:Problems

Given consensus of this group have no power over other wikis, or chapters, I cannot see this doing any good. Even if this group says that Wikimedia Australia is doing something wrong, it has no right nor authority to do anything about it; similarly, if it thinks the English Wikipedia's policy on biographies is too strong, it can't do anything about it, because that is an English Wikipedia consensus issue, not a small-group-of-Meta-users issue.

So, I think this is a bad idea with little merit, sorry. Daniel (talk) 13:57, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

This is about gathering and analyzing problems as well as about trying to solve it. It is up to the existing Wikimedia structures to solve them. Please, read the thread at foundation-l for the full explanation of the problem. --Millosh 14:54, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Besides that, I don't think that this group would try to solve problems which you mentioned. The first one is a matter of ChapCom; about the second one this group would say probably that some interproject body should be formed to deal with it. --Millosh 14:54, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

I guess identifying the problems would be good already.--Yaroslav Blanter 15:32, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Sorry, but I agree with Daniel (it is not a plot that the Aussies are ganging up on you). On Chapters, you explicitly say that problems about chapters could come here if they can not be solved in the chapter or at ChapCom. If it can not be solved there, there would be little point in it coming here. This pretty well applies to all the other issues. I also take exception to the proposal for a closed membership. We work by consensus of the community. If this project does get legs, then anyone should be free to contribute. I do not think this idea is going to go anywhere. Sorry. --Bduke 20:01, 28 October 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your opinion. There are others (at least two of us) who think differently. --Millosh 20:16, 28 October 2008 (UTC)