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| Esperanza was an association founded on . Its goal was to indirectly support the encyclopedia by providing support and other assistance for Wikipedians in need, and by strengthening Misplaced Pages's sense of community. By doing this, it was hoped that editors would be encouraged to stay with Misplaced Pages. Esperanza was loosely governed by an Advisory Council, made up of two tranches and an Admin General, elected two times a year, who made binding decisions about Esperanza on ]. This was felt by many as being counter to the open and transparent spirit of a wiki. Esperanza was nominated for deletion twice. A in November 2006 failed to reach consensus. A in December 2006 resulted in a decentralisation of Esperanza, where those programs which were felt to be of merit were spun off as independent projects, and the main page was to be made into an essay about its fate. This result was upheld in a in January 2007. | |||
| '''Esperanza''' was a Misplaced Pages project founded on ], ]. Its goals were to support the encyclopedia indirectly by encouraging a sense of community. It was the belief of Esperanza that a friendly, supportive community within Misplaced Pages would help the encyclopedia by keeping editors happy, productive, and on the project. The name is derived from the Spanish word for "hope," and the original goal was to offer hope for the Misplaced Pages community and bring it together. When proposing the association, the founder wrote the following: | |||
| This essay serves as a warning to all editors that existing projects must be open and transparent to all editors at all times, not to be overly hierarchical lest they are to meet a similar fate as Esperanza. | |||
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| <div style"text-align:justify; font-size:90%;">'''Esperanza''' or '''Esperanza Association''' is a proposed association of wikipedians dedicated to strengthening wikipedia's sense of community through establishing a support network for wikipedians in an environment that is often hostile and apathetic. Esperanza takes its name from the ] for hope. We have taken this name the in spirit of offering hope to wikipedians who feel isolated and ignored. Spanish is used in the hope thata segment of the wikipedia community will never again feel so isolated that it breaks away from the community as did a portion of the Spanish wikipedia community did to form ].<ref></ref> | |||
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| Esperanza was governed by a charter, which stipulated an Advisory Council with staggered terms, as well as an Administrator General who was selected by the council to lead the project. Amendments to the charter could be made through week-long discussions held on ]. This was criticized as being heavily bureaucratic; Misplaced Pages is ]. | |||
| Esperanza was first ] in November 2006. Critics of the group argued that Esperanza distracted people from contributing to the encyclopedia proper by providing an environment for social interaction. Esperanza was also criticized for having regular Council elections, which were seen as nothing more than popularity contests. Following a no consensus result in the first motion to delete Esperanza, the organization engaged in a series of reforms, which resulted in the deletion of the coffee lounge, the user page awards, Stressbusters and the Barnstar Brigade. The group also attempted to promote participation in the article namespace by creating an Esperanza Collaboration of the Month. While most of the reform discussions ultimately reached a consensus, the overhaul discussions related to Esperanza's goals, its charter, its governance, what constitutes membership, and the noticeboard weren't completed. | |||
| A month later, Esperanza was once again ]. Noted complaints against the organization included: | |||
| *The overhaul proved to be unsuccessful in reforming Esperanza as a whole. The participants in the discussions promised to fix Esperanza: this, however, was felt to be done purely to avoid deletion, and not out of conviction. Little reform took place. | |||
| *In addition, its members also believed that Misplaced Pages depended wholly upon the existence of Esperanza, and would break down without it. | |||
| *Likewise, there had been other comments that Wikipedians who were not members of Esperanza were treated as inferior by those who were. Officially, members and non-members alike were invited to participate in Esperanza's programs; in practice, non-members had been set apart through Esperanza's activities, such as the ''Esperanza'' Collaboration of the Month. | |||
| * Esperanza was governed by an elected "Advisory Council", whose goal was to discuss any major issues that would affect the organization as a whole. The bureaucracy of this is anti-Misplaced Pages; the council made binding decisions through off-wiki conversations on ] which were only made available after the event. Although these decisions could be overturned by the general Esperanza community via ], this decision-making process did not follow Misplaced Pages's ]. | |||
| * Esperanza was a nice idea but impossible to implement; additionally, a large project isn't needed to spread hope and good cheer. | |||
| After long discussion, it was ultimately decided that Esperanza was to be decentralized and disbanded; see ] for a list of now-independent projects. Other pages about Esperanza themselves were redirected to this page, which was replaced with the summary above. | |||
| More debates followed on various pages in the Misplaced Pages namespace, including on a ] filed to review aspects of the MfD closure. The closing admin declared the consensus to be that the original MfD decision was endorsed. | |||
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This project is officially inactive as a result of this Miscellany for Deletion discussion. Some of the former Esperanza projects are now functioning as independent projects:
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Misplaced Pages:Misplaced Pages Signpost/sandbox Esperanza was an association founded on 12 August 2005. Its goal was to indirectly support the encyclopedia by providing support and other assistance for Wikipedians in need, and by strengthening Misplaced Pages's sense of community. By doing this, it was hoped that editors would be encouraged to stay with Misplaced Pages. Esperanza was loosely governed by an Advisory Council, made up of two tranches and an Admin General, elected two times a year, who made binding decisions about Esperanza on IRC. This was felt by many as being counter to the open and transparent spirit of a wiki. Esperanza was nominated for deletion twice. A deletion request in November 2006 failed to reach consensus. A second deletion request in December 2006 resulted in a decentralisation of Esperanza, where those programs which were felt to be of merit were spun off as independent projects, and the main page was to be made into an essay about its fate. This result was upheld in a deletion review in January 2007.
This essay serves as a warning to all editors that existing projects must be open and transparent to all editors at all times, not to be overly hierarchical lest they are to meet a similar fate as Esperanza.
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