Perhaps you should just leave the Navajo Wikipedia.
On 2/22/07, Berto 'd Sera <albertoserra(a)ukr.net> wrote:
Hi!
I do not know this guy personally, I have spoken with you (Mark) only here
and quite casually, so all I can say is based on what I see/read/guess.
IMHO, you either have a simple personal problem OR you have different
conceptions of what should be done with the wiki.
Pls stop unblocking yourself asap and only ask for external intervention (as
you are already doing, I seem to understand). I know that asking something
is easy, but getting WMF to make ANY decision (even the most elementary
ones) is actually harder than changing Earth's Orbit with your bare hands,
so one can easily be tempted by a "Do It Yourself" solution. After all
it's
what wikies are about, isn't it? Yet when it gets to conflict it's the wrong
way, believe me.
I'd really welcome an external "sort of U.N." ArbCom for things like
these.
I know it's not nice when we have to deal with annoying petty quarrels but
someone must do the job, because no job gets done by leaving it on the table
until the paper on which its specs are written gets destroyed by time.
Many people will probably rate it a waste of time since it's about a 2
people community. But if you cannot ensure that things go smooth and
everybody's rights are respected when it's a small community.... then the
winner will start to ban every newcomer who is not "politically correct" and
there you go. It doesn't really matter whether the choice is made based on
politics, religion, sexual orientation or just personal sympathy.
The result is but one anyway: only those who comply with "the rules" stay in
and the community grows as a sect. Once it's not going to be just 2 guys but
a full 300 people monolithically structured around some implicit "belief" of
theirs... then you bet you're going to have a hard time in making that wiki
behave like a wiki should.
Bèrto 'd Sèra
Personagi dl'ann 2006 për l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojàotri)
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
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