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Consensus template

With the recent difficulties of getting formal consensus to make decisions, I'd like to suggest that we make a template that can be used to mark a major discussion. Pages with the template could be linked to on Recent Changes via a category or something. Nyargleblargle (Contribs) 20:09, 27 July 2017 (UTC)

I think we need clear guidelines on what makes a major discussion, and what is a consensus. A lot of decisions are made off-site now on Discord simply because it's real time chat and those on the server get notifications about it. Is a major discussion one that is time-pressured? Site-wide change? Site-interface change? Affects some (but not all) users, such as mobile? As for consensus... perhaps a time limit and if no-one bothers to vote then the motion is passed as a "not enough care one way or another".

We can certainly add more quick links to the top of Recent Changes via MediaWiki:Recentchangestext and to Inkipedia:Maintenance with the number of ongoing discussions (pages in the category). Perhaps make a quick filter list for recent discussions, though I don't think you can filter by multiple namespaces?

We could make use of the MediaWiki:Sitenotice for really important discussions.

User:Kjhf/Sig 11:30, 28 July 2017 (UTC)

I've made a consensus policy based on SmashWiki's to address your concern. Nyargleblargle (Contribs) 13:22, 28 July 2017 (UTC)