https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71388
--- Comment #9 from James Alexander <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Muzammil from comment #8) > (In reply to Andre Klapper from comment #7) > > [No need to full-quote my entire previous comment :) -Andre Klapper ] > > > So have there been any signs/indication of "malicious activity", or is this > > precautiously? > > During the Christ University Wikipedia Education Program > (http://cis-india.org/openness/blog/wikipedia-at-forefront-in-christ- > university), I faced a lot difficulty from about 1600 students in the form > of: > a) duplicate articles > b) non-notable personalities/ topics > c) essay-type articles > d) junk inputs > > While there were several good articles / reasonably well-written articles, > my personal association with the admins before the program helped me in > dealing with the situation through articles-mergers, deletion requests, > speedily deleting junk and reworking essays to make them encyclopedic. > > In the light of this experience, I feel it a messy situation in getting more > and more people onto the mailing list with virtually no control In the end this is a local community mailing list, you need to have a discussion either on the mailing list or on wiki (on an administrators or community discussion page for example) and come to a consensus on who should be the mailing list admin (in fact usually there are multiple, at least 2). It is not our normal policy to replace admins unless there is consensus from the community involved or the mailing list admin themselves ask. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
