My previous statement was saying that not requiring open-source in this category was the previous consensus, which is just an objective fact that it was. Now we are seeking a new consensus, which is fine, but it will take as long as it takes.
It is much preferable for us all to accept that it is not the end of the world for us to leave a less-than-perfect criteria on the website — with the understanding that Privacy Guides is always gradually improving and changes are being discussed and considered — than to try and fight for and push forward some immediate change for a particular preferred version of the criteria ASAP.
This is probably an off-topic discussion we could take elsewhere, but I do see PG’s “governance and consensus structure” as similar to Wikipedia personally, and at least that seems to be the direction things have been heading.
This is also off-topic, but yes I would take our statistics with a big grain of salt. People sharing IPs or using Tor might appear as the same person to our (primitive) stats lowering the count, and on the other hand people switching IPs/circuits frequently may appear as multiple visitors increasing the count. So I think it is probably a wash basically, but who knows for sure.
Our pageviews are probably the most accurate statistic we have, which hovers around 35-40K/day.