On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Bod Notbod<[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax<[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There are people who are skilled at facilitating consensus, given the >> opportunity. Dispute resolution process suggests bringing in a >> neutral party to mediate, but we don't insist on that process. >> Instead, we have editors who, when they oppose what another editor is >> trying to do, go to a noticeboard to request that the other editor be >> coerced into stopping. And the noticeboards are full of >> result-oriented editors who are impatient with process. > > When I mentioned on a project list recently, possibly this one, that I > had more time to spare on Wikipedia and asked where I should devote > that time, and stated I'm "interested in conflict resolution" someone > replied "the last thing we need is another person getting involved in > arguments." > > :o/
That's most unfortunate. We have the whole mediation cabal who do just that. -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
