Well, there is something in the original proposal that makes sense to me -- devoting specific attention to long-term facilitation of discussion and resolution of difficult issues. There is something about wiki-time (to borrow a term) that discourages measured discussion over time - if you miss the flashpoint discussion that sets a precedent, people may have moved on and you'll have to restart the original interest again.
I think the list-vs-wiki distinction is a red herring -- I'd like to see list-to-wiki synchronization so that we never have to have that discussion again -- so to keep things simple, let's imagine what this would look like on-wiki. Sam had a good idea in this direction : [[Wikipedia:Community Facilitation]] . It's about something more specific than dispute resolution in general, but may be a useful part of what you have in mind, steve. And the idea would be both to discuss [potentially long-term] facilitation, help people get better at it, and practice it in the context of specific issues. Sj On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 4:01 AM, stevertigo <stv...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm proposing that we start a resolution-l mailing list. > > Yes, I know we talked about it a month ago, to the tune of about 100 > posts, and it seemed that it wasn't going anywhere. But that was just > appearances. The reality is that the support was substantial, the > opposition was sub-articulate, and whatever substantive criticism > there was was largely based in some assumed misconceptions about its > scope (Thomas). > > The real truth is that we have been waiting for Cary to fulfill one of > his many duties and create the list. That having failed, we have been > waiting on Cary to tell us why he has not. That also having failed, we > instead have just been waiting a month for Cary to say anything at > all. And he recently did, though there was little substance in it, > other than a threat to close the bug request. Which in fact, he just > did close as WONTFIX: > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19414 . I'm sure he > thinks he's doing the right thing. Still, despite our recent > differences, we should welcome Cary's actual participation in our > discussion. Thank you Cary, we understand that you were just too busy > to give this proper consideration. > > Anyway, we were talking about an open list for discussing dispute > resolution. Its scope will be broad, and its purpose will be to be > helpful. It will discuss particular disputes in general, conceptual, > and editorial terms, and facilitate immediate on-wiki dispute > resolution processes. It will also discuss dispute resolution concepts > in general, wherever that goes. > > -Stevertigo > Architect of WP:CIVIL, > creator of Arbcom, > Inventor of those WP:Shortcuts > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l