[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[George Herbert]

On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Bod Notbod<bodnotbod at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/

That's most unfortunate.  We have the whole mediation cabal who do just that.


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-george william herbert
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