[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:35 PM, Stephanie Daugherty
<sdaugherty at gmail.com> wrote:

> That means we need a stronger executive that can decide
> to break deadlocks when they happen, or lend structure to debate so
> that it can run it's course, as appropriate for the situation.

These are the two approaches that work in most situations. I'm very
much in favour of structured debates, rather than the chaotic ones
that sometimes take place. But you need to set up the debate so that
someone (or a group) is tasked with closing it and moving things
forward. Too many debates just founder and fade away, with nothing
being done.

Carcharoth