Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:09:49 -0700
From: Stan Shebs <stanshebs(a)earthlink.net>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] You Really Don't Get It
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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George Herbert wrote:
It might also make sense to create some sort of
structure for an
organized effort on that account. Anything from a "Stressed admin
noticeboard" to a "This admin pledges to take a Wikibreak
if 5 admins
or 10 users ask them to in any 24 hr period"
pledge and template.
Those ideas occurred to me but I haven't had bandwidth to
follow them
up.
Or it could be as simple as every admin having an "admin buddy",
somebody who maybe doesn't normally get involved with your
same areas,
but takes a look to see how you're doing every once in a
while, and can
speak up objectively if things are not going well. It
wouldn't be much
of a time imposition to look over one other person's contribution
history once a week, plus if the areas of specialty are different,
there's opportunity for broadening one's admin outlook. This
would be a
peer relationship, not any kind of mentoring - totally random
pairing of
admins would suffice even (and hopefully allay paranoia about cabals).
Stan
Neat.
I could use an "admin buddy". I could be an admin buddy too... How to get
started? Hm... Write me if you want to pair up? Start a page somewhere?
Larry Pieniazek
Work mail: lpieniaz at