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were pleasingly binary; either this proposal for a feature would come about or it would be rejected - it was binary. What came out finally is more like a spectrum; the WMF would move in such and such a direction and success will presumably be measured in somewhat lengthy reports.
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This sounds like a criticism of strategy. It's not meant to be. Now that time has passed I see what happened as rather inevitable. The WMF could scarcely be expected to evaluate 900 small scale actions and has, of necessity, taken a broader
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