Charles Matthews wrote: > > I can't go into private discussions I know about, obviously. I've > several times made public my view that we should give admins plenty of > discretion, and balance that by a small number of de-sysops. So I agree > pretty much with what you say. "Sympathy" needs to be in the way of a > full understanding of the job description, not in continuing admins who > really don't match that description. The counter-argument, though, is > that the "community" will not accept certain tough decisions; in other > words there will be some adverse comment. Sometimes there is much more > to these situations than meets the eye. > > >
At some point the arbitration committee is going to have to make tough decisions, if only to see exactly where the chips fall. If the arbitration committee is sometimes afraid of acting, what hope have we got? David brought up the idea of forking again, and maybe that's what we need to explore once again, maybe we do need to investigate a fork of the project. Tying this into the Guardian article, maybe a fork would protect us somewhat from the fears it provokes. After all, Wikipedia was originally a project to write an enecyclopedia for another project. Why not investigate establishing a new Wikipedia to write articles for us? Alternatively, how about instigating a "standard article" process, tag everything in the current database as standard, and then allow new articles to be created with a huge template at the top to the effect of buyer beware, this article does not meet Wikipedia Standards, and relax "some" of the rules on those articles until they lose the template. Nah, too radical. I mean, rather than delete articles, we could just sub-standardise them. And at a stroke we'd have an instant defence against all those media stories; "but why are you taking it seriously, we told you it's a draft". _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
