On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 4:10 PM, Marc Riddell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I agree with you completely, Phil. ArbCom, as it presently is, is a > disaster. And is a major obstacle to achieving a healthy, collaborative and > fair creative community. My questions are: Who has the power to change that? > How would the process that could evaluate ArbCom, and bring about change, > get started? I would be interested in helping. ArbCom has far less influence than people give it credit for. What you are looking for is leadership, and that has to come from the community (or a body elected for that purpose by the community), not a dispute resolution body (which is what ArbCom is, or at least what it started out as). What is needed is a body other than ArbCom to provide leadership. That is what Wikipedia is lacking. There have been attempts (by both ArbCom and the community) to institute such a body, but the "community" tends to resist radical change, which is of course part of the problem (though it is also a safety feature against too radical changes). The upcoming ArbCom elections might be a good time to air some of these matters, but only if done in a well-thought out manner, by someone with the time and motivation to see through a process that may take months or years to come to a conclusion. Carcharoth _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
