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8. Jun 2018 08:29 by <a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">frederik@remote.org</a>:<br /><div><br /></div><div><p><br /></p><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">Some people say that while this may be true, the time has now come to<br />get rid of the old ways that got us where we are, and change tack to<br />something more conservative. This is a valid argument but I am not<br />convinced; a lot of innovation is still going on with tags, and strict<br />enforcement would run the risk of killing that.<br /></blockquote><p><br /></p>I would start from easy wins, for example why we have both FIXME and fixme tags?</div><div>Why we still have wikipedia:pl, wikipedia:en duplicating wikipedia keys?</div><div><br /></div><div>Note: in both cases there is an ongoing work to purge this tags (without harming data)</div><div>in Poland, I plan to propose later a worldwide mechanical edit.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Even easy stuff like that is complicated to do properly.<br /></div><div><br /></div><blockquote class="tutanota_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid #93A3B8; padding-left: 10px; margin-left: 5px;">there *were* competing projects which got stuck trying<br />to define the one true set of keys and values that would work for<br />everything<br /></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Are you aware about some post-mortem analysis of this competition?</p><p>It is very interesting for me to read why some communities thrive and why</p><p>some die.</p><p><br /></p><p>For wikipedia "Almost Wikipedia: What Eight Early Online Collaborative Encyclopedia <br /></p><p>Projects Reveal about the Mechanisms of Collective Action" was quite interesting (</p><p>it suggested that many competing projects (a) focused too much on technical issues and</p><p>got bogged down by work on a specialized software (b) tried too many new things at once,</p><p>while "encyclopedia" was recognizable).<br /></p> </body>
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