Re: [WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

2010-07-14 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:32 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.comwrote: On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 7:58 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: On 14 July 2010 02:07, FT2 ft2.w...@gmail.com wrote: The expectations upon admins are the pivot point for that. See [[ User:FT2/RfA

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

2010-07-14 Thread Charles Matthews
Ryan Delaney wrote: Somehow this thread became about RFA standards. What happened? True. We seem to be missing the point that the trouble with the Administrators Noticeboard is at least in part that it is a noticeboard, i.e. not a process for which there is a charter, but an unchartered

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia’s Foundation Plans Exp ansion

2010-07-14 Thread Liam Wyatt
On 13 July 2010 09:05, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.comwrote: James Alexander wrote: On a related note: someone brought this Times article to the meetup in Boston Monday http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/12/business/media/12link.html. There is some truth to it I think and the

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

2010-07-14 Thread Fred Bauder
Fred I failed my first try, and could have failed my second if I hadn't made a serious effort to ameliorate a negative perception from taking a stand earlier. The edge of the knife that we must balance on is both being willing to take stands, and be open to feedback from the community and

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia’s Foundation Plans Expa nsion

2010-07-14 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: But I also think that we all agree that there's definitely a long way to go before en-wp could be considered full. IMO we're only just scratching the surface of what we can eventually achieve :-) -Liam My usual link on

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia’s Foundation Plans Exp ansion

2010-07-14 Thread Charles Matthews
Liam Wyatt wrote: On 13 July 2010 09:05, Charles Matthews charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com mailto:charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com wrote: James Alexander wrote: On a related note: someone brought this Times article to the meetup in Boston Monday

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia’s Foundation Plans Expa nsion

2010-07-14 Thread Charles Matthews
Gwern Branwen wrote: On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Liam Wyatt liamwy...@gmail.com wrote: But I also think that we all agree that there's definitely a long way to go before en-wp could be considered full. IMO we're only just scratching the surface of what we can eventually achieve :-)

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

2010-07-14 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:15 AM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Fred I failed my first try, and could have failed my second if I hadn't made a serious effort to ameliorate a negative perception from taking a stand earlier. The edge of the knife that we must balance on is

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

2010-07-14 Thread Fred Bauder
The other side of that coin is that when there are systemic problems that necessarily reduce in stress or even abusive treatment of administrators, you ought to be identifying and correcting that. Right now, you have exactly such a situation. Working toward identifying and correcting

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

2010-07-14 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: The other side of that coin is that when there are systemic problems that necessarily reduce in stress or even abusive treatment of administrators, you ought to be identifying and correcting that. Right now, you

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

2010-07-14 Thread Fred Bauder
Yes, we need to address the problems, not blame the victims and help them cope with nightmares. Fred What do you propose? Personally, what I'm going to do is participate more on noticeboards. Adapting that to a general solution would involve experienced administrators paying more

Re: [WikiEN-l] Admin / experienced user flameout - how do we talk people down off the ledge?

2010-07-14 Thread Ryan Delaney
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Fred Bauder fredb...@fairpoint.net wrote: Yes, we need to address the problems, not blame the victims and help them cope with nightmares. Fred What do you propose? Personally, what I'm going to do is participate more on noticeboards. Adapting