[WikiEN-l] Replacing admins with a slower less efficient method for blocking vandals and deleting attack pages

2010-08-24 Thread WereSpielChequers
I appreciate that your suggestion is not to have admins. But aside from the issue that juries will be slower and less efficient than the current system for dealing with attack pages, what is the error rate for admin deletion of attack pages and blocking of vandalism only accounts? There are areas

Re: [WikiEN-l] Replacing admins with a slower less efficient method for blocking vandals and deleting attack pages

2010-08-24 Thread Carcharoth
All those concerns are addressed by the idea I proposed where people can do temporary admin actions (obviously this ability would be swiftly taken away if abused) that are later confirmed or reversed by a full admin. I think the overhead would be worth it, along with some real metrics to judge

Re: [WikiEN-l] Replacing admins with a slower less efficient method for blocking vandals and deleting attack pages

2010-08-24 Thread WereSpielChequers
I'm happy with the idea of provisional adminship, as I think that could be a solution to several problems. I would also welcome some sort of jury system for decisions likely to be contentious (though I don't see hou you would identify those more effectively than the current arrangements of posting

Re: [WikiEN-l] 'Wikipedia editing courses launched by Zionist groups'

2010-08-24 Thread Nathan
Continuing media coverage from yesterday, by the New York Times: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/08/23/readers-discuss-wikipedia-editing-course-that-aims-for-balanced-and-zionist-entries/?ref=world ___ WikiEN-l mailing list

Re: [WikiEN-l] 'Wikipedia editing courses launched by Zionist groups'

2010-08-24 Thread Shane Simmons
The LGBT mob would be the most obvious counter example. Care to elaborate? Not 100% sure, but I believe this is a reference to ...a campaign against Wikipedia in Serbian by an irrelevant LGBT organization... It was discussed on the [Foundation-l] list back in July.

Re: [WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:WikiProject Project

2010-08-24 Thread stevertigo
I've moved discussion to a meta page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_namespace , and made a tally. I wonder if its possible that someone from the technical staff to give us an unbiased breakdown of the technical requirements and server costs to implement a namespace