> We need an effective way to sanction any member of the community that > is disruptive or incivil. We need ArbCom to become more of an > appellate than the sole "court" of English Wikipedia, because they > can't scale to that, and because they are specifically tasked with the > worst problems, not with the "death by a thousand cuts" of borderline > disruption. A start would be some form of binding dispute resolution > that doesn't require ArbCom involvement, but it has to be binding, and > it has to be able to consistently result in sanctions if the dispute > resolution process fails - without the case having to go before ArbCom > first.
> As far as fixing dispute resolution, I suggest that a first measure, > we restore and revamp the mediation system and make it binding. The > way this would work, mediators would begin to be elected or appointed > to reach a suitable number of mediators for the expected caseload. > Mediators would be assigned to cases requesting mediation, under the > condition that prior dispute resolution steps must have been attempted > - or that only one of the parties were willing to participate in > dispute resolution. Once a case was reviewed and accepted, it would > enter a binding mediation. > Editors participating in binding mediations would reach a solution > mutually agreeable to the parties and found reasonable (by the > standards of policy and practical enforceability) by the mediators, > or the failure to do so would be submitted to arbcom along with the > prior chain of dispute resolution activity and could potentially form > further evidence of tenditiousness and incivility. Agreements reached > from mediation would be binding on the parties, in that the standard > remedies of "any uninvolved administrator" being able to enforce an > agreement would apply, and such agreements would stand until > renegotiated or appealed to ArbCom. Finally, mediators would be given > access to an expedited ArbCom process (essentially, the ability to ask > ArbCom for an injunction in a case that has not yet been presented to > them) for obtaining injunctions in order to stop a disputed activity > while negotiations take place - injunctions of this nature would > expire after reaching an agreement through mediation, or after > reaching a decision through arbitration. > > -Stephanie You're proposing a rather complex structure when we are having trouble finding responsible talented people to populate the limited one we have. I think we need to go the other direction, empowering administrators, a movement that is ongoing. However along with more widespread power there needs to be more widespread skill and finesse. I keep coming back to community practices; they need to advance on a broad basis. Everybody needs to do better and have an understanding of how their behavior affects the entire project. That, I guess, is called socialization. How are Wikipedia editors socialized? Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
