If the editing metrics are still up, could this a reflect a shift in the
type of user to coordinated offsite editing. Judging by the huge amount of
interest in a certain obscure IdeaLab proposal, we could be looking at a
new editing paradigm.
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Kevin Gorman <kgorman(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Daniel: your suggestion doesn't reflect the fact
that 2014's election
had roughly 60% the voters of the year before. We definitely didn't
have anywhere near that much of a drop in editing metrics.
Best,
Kevin Gorman
On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Daniel and Elizabeth Case
<dancase(a)frontiernet.net> wrote:
Not to
keep harping on how important it is to vote for arbcom, but I'm
still just flummoxed by the fact that arbcom is elected by about half
a percent of very active editors, and a smaller portion still of
editors who meet the requirements and have edited in say, the last
year.
Speaking as someone who does vote in ArbCom elections regularly,
although I
rarely closely follow what that body does ... I
think this might reflect
the
oft-unacknowledged fact that a great deal more
editors than we realize do
the tasks they have set out for themselves, "all alone or in twos", so to
speak, managing to complete them and resolve differences of opinion
amongst
themselves without resorting to any sort of
formal dispute-resolution
process. Of course it's only going to be those who have a reason to care
who
care about ArbCom—and, naturally, that group is
going to include a
greater
proportion of those who have agendas they'd
like to see ArbCom promote.
Daniel Case
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