On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:39 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The problem with the approach that we can let the "welcoming" and > "friendliness" be an emergent behaviour, is that we're already many years > into this > and it's simply... not. > > However the admin bit is an officially sanctioned method of enforcing > rules. > > This is a lop-sided approach. To counter-balance the officially sanctioned > rule enforcement, we need an *equally weighted* officially sanctioned > welcoming committee type role that operates *on the level* of the editors > exactly > as an admin operates. > > A person well-suited to be an admin, is not necessarily and sometimes > diametrically opposed to a person well-suited to be a welcomer. >
See the Wiki Guides project for an attempt to do something like what you're describing.[1] 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Guides _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
