Jason Michael Smithson

Founded Breakset where among other things you can find my main MediaWiki based user page at Jason Michael Smithson.

Consensus decision making

The ancient Jewish Sanhedrin courts rejected all unanimous verdicts and let the accused go free, on the assumption that the accused had not had any adequate defense.

However, the consensus process of U-2 has maximized their chance to get to know each other and to cooperate, so a truly effective presentation and marshalling of support may be possible later on. Venture capitalists tend to value these traits, and so most will consider hearing a business plan only if it is presented by a pair of business partners already committed to working with each other.

GFDL

Draft Debian Position Statement about the GNU Free Documentation License(GFDL) lays out the issues well but offers no real solutions.

This page does contain at least a reccomendation:
http://people.debian.org/%7Ebap/dfsg-faq.html
If you must use the GFDL for some reason (eg for compatibility), we would very much encourage you to put your material under a dual license, like GFDL/GPL.

• http://www.dwheeler.com/essays/gpl-compatible.html
• Why You Shouldn't Use the GNU FDL
• Debian GNU/Linux to Declare GNU GFDL non-Free?

m:GFDL_FAQ
GNU_Free_Documentation_License
Talk:GNU_Free_Documentation_License:
"So in other words, as things now stand the situation is a huge mess?

Yes, personally that is how I would describe the current state of copyright and licensing issues on Wikipedia. We really haven't thought the whole thing through, IMHO. -- SJK"

Why Wikitravel isn't GFDL

Some historical [Wikipedia-l] pages:
Wikipedia-l GNU FDL & HTML Table Requirement
Wikipedia-l The case against "invariant sections"

Layout

• Quotation_mark

wikipedia

• Feature Requests
• wikipedia:ignored feature requests
• meta:MediaWiki feature request and bug report discussion
• meta:MediaWiki_development
• requests are discussed on wikipedia-l
• Wikipedia:How to edit a page
• Wikipedia:Special characters

My current annoyance with the MediaWiki software:

1. blah
   1. son of blah
      1. grandson of blah
2. foo
   1. son of foo
   2. daughter of foo
      1. granddaughter of foo

It should be more like:

1 blah
  1.1 son of blah
    1.1.1 grandson of blah
2 foo
  2.1 son of foo
  2.2 daugher of foo
    2.2.1 granddaugher of foo

Actually turns out to be an HTML annoyance. There is a Javascript/CSS fix in Russian at:

• http://imfo.ru/csstest/olcount/li.html