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
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
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
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
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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.
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