[WikiEN-l] Admin list--privacy

[Ray Saintonge]

Hermione1980 wrote:

>--- Tony Sidaway <f.crdfa at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>If ever admitted to any mailing list for
>>administrators only I will
>>publish all contents on my public blog.  Be warned. 
>>I will not
>>tolerate cliques within Wikipedia.
>>    
>>
>Best get cracking on how to get the ArbCom mailing
>list contents, too. Don't they have their own mailing
>list and IRC channel? The point of having an
>admins-only list, as I see it, is to have a place for
>discussion that's not interrupted by "omg I was
>blocked out of policy!" Besides, if the archives are
>posted publicly (which has been discussed on this
>thread already, if I'm not mistaken), there's really
>not any less transparency.
>
The privacy of arbcom deliberation has a completely different basis.  
They are not about establishing policy, but about the private issues of 
individual Wikipedians.  It would not surprise me to hear that in those 
heated circumstances the participants do not pay much attention to 
whether their own statements are defamatory.

This list does in fact get frequent complaints from someone who was 
blocked, but most of those threads don't last long.  When an eMail from 
a person that I don't know begins with "I was blocked ..." I have no 
problem finding the delete key on my keyboard.

Ec