Jimmy Wales wrote:
There are many many times when I need to quietly ask a
group of trusted
editors to look at a problematic article -- for example, we get a
complaint from someone fairly obscure, on a topic I know nothing about,
and I look at the article and it is obvious crap. The channel is
already proving useful in that regard.
There's an obvious security problem here, of course, in that you have
no way of knowing that someone who claims to be a given admin and who
then gets into the channel is actually that admin.
So I wouldn't recommend its use for stuff that *really* has to be kept
to sane insiders, with "admin" as a rough approximation to "sane
insider" ('cos we don't *usually* get admins who are completely
batshit). But it would be useful in that sense as a saner sounding
board than the average day on #wikipedia. OTOH, you could probably get
as good results on #wikimedia in many ways ...
- d.