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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=813494116-22012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>As
of this morning, it looks like Erik is the administrator of the 2 Wikipedia
message boards. </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=813494116-22012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Anyone can sign up, with read/write access to both Mediation and
Arbitration. I suppose it will take us around a week to figure out if either
team wants to configure this differently.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=813494116-22012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>The message board software has "usergroups", which could be used to
separate Mediators from Arbitrators, if closed door sessions are needed.
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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=813494116-22012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>I'm leaning toward an open forum with what I call "eavesdropping", e.g.,
only Mediators will contribute comments to the Mediation message board, but
registered users can read every comment. </FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=813494116-22012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Another alternative is to limit read AND write access for each board to
its members. We should discuss this before doing it.</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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<DIV><TT><SPAN class=813494116-22012004><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Ed
Poor, aka Uncle Ed</FONT></SPAN></TT></DIV>
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