Jesse W wrote:
On Jul 24, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Stan Shebs wrote:
But I don't think there's a whole lot of
incentive or reward for
leadership, so attempts tend to be brief and unsuccessful. Even if
one manages to organize several like-minded editors into a
cooperative effort, the newest of newbies can still come in and
disrupt, oftentimes with the support of onlookers shrieking about
cabals, and the would-be leader sees his/her investment in WP come
to naught.
Then don't. Make a fork.
An overreaction. It's like observing a flaw in your country's
political system, and deciding that the only possible solution
is to secede, set up a competing country, and hope everybody
moves there.
But so far it's been possible to add admins, arbcom, policy
pages, RC patrols, vandalbots, etc, without having to have a
fork each time.
My goal in this particular discussion is to get people to think
about a class of interactions they see going on every day, and
ask themselves if that is as good as we want it, or if there are
fixes to be tried. An experiment in this area could be as simple
and easy as a wikiproject formally appointing a "lead editor" that
the project participants sign up to support - hardly an earthshaking
event that requires forking!
Stan