<div class="gmail_extra">On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 6:42 AM, Serge Wroclawski <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:emacsen@gmail.com" target="_blank">emacsen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div id=":4y">This will give step by step guidance to those who want to import data,<br>and offer the larger community time to review and provide feedback.</div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 7:16 AM, Josh Doe <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josh@joshdoe.com" target="_blank">josh@joshdoe.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>Excellent idea and a good time to do it. Cleaning up the wiki around US-related imports should be among the first tasks, and bringing together all the lessons learned from imports to date.<span class=""><font color="#888888"><br>


-Josh </font></span></div></blockquote></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>What is stopping these this from happening without a committee?</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I appreciate the interest in reducing import frustration all around, but there's nothing stopping the wiki from being cleaned up in a way that fosters group discussion and there's nothing stopping people from turning lessons learned into well-defined rules. </div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">From the above example, what's the "appropriate amount of time for the community to review the data"? That seems like something we could define without a committee.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">I'm not saying we shouldn't have a committee, but I believe process definition - and not organizational structure is our current biggest issue with imports.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Serge - thanks for taking the lead in bringing this idea forward.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">- Jeff</div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br>-- <br><font size="1">Jeff Meyer<br>Global World History Atlas<br><a href="http://www.gwhat.org" target="_blank">www.gwhat.org</a><br><a href="mailto:jeff@gwhat.org" target="_blank">jeff@gwhat.org</a><br>
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