[WikiEN-l] Admin list--privacy

[Jay Converse]

I don't know if this will help the discussion at all, but unless I'm missing
something, the admin list isn't even listed with all the other
mailinglists.  Can the public archives really be a big deal if you can't
just accidentally stumble upon them?

On 1/22/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> 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
>
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