Making proposals easier to find / organize / work on

Fragment of a discussion from Village pump/en

There can definitely be four people who are ready to code it and actually do the hard work of implementing it. But it's all kind of pointless if there is no authorization. And the way Wikimedia is set up, you get authorization through consensus. Even Jimbo runs into problems (perhaps rightfully so) when he wants to make any sort of change.

I respect that we're trying to build a base for change. But the Foundation has to acknowledge that you can't do anything without getting consent (root of consensus) from the community... and that it's very hard to get that consent. Jimbo is one of the few people who can just do something without that consent, and even then he runs into problems (perhaps rightfully so).

I'd really like to find a way to improve how proposals are made, discussed, and implemented. But we already have a place where proposals go to die.

en:Wikipedia:Perennial_proposals

Randomran21:13, 21 May 2010