[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[Bod Notbod]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 1:04 PM, Abd ul-Rahman Lomax<abd at lomaxdesign.com> wrote:

> There are people who are skilled at facilitating consensus, given the
> opportunity. Dispute resolution process suggests bringing in a
> neutral party to mediate, but we don't insist on that process.
> Instead, we have editors who, when they oppose what another editor is
> trying to do, go to a noticeboard to request that the other editor be
> coerced into stopping. And the noticeboards are full of
> result-oriented editors who are impatient with process.

When I mentioned on a project list recently, possibly this one, that I
had more time to spare on Wikipedia and asked where I should devote
that time, and stated I'm "interested in conflict resolution" someone
replied "the last thing we need is another person getting involved in
arguments."

:o/