On 1/22/06, Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006, Puddl Duk wrote:
How about an admin only IRC channel and mailing list?
Fred
No we should try and keep things as open as posible.
-- geni
I would support this idea as long as the mailing list archives were
public.
Two good reasons such a mailling list should be kept private:
- Admin A posts to the list "User X is being disruptive. What do I do?"
- ADmin B posts to the list "I need a sanity check. User Y has done
this, & I plan on acting thusly. Comments please."
Reasons:
- No one wants to admit in public that they're clueless.
- People are more likely to admit that they'rewrong in private.
- Sometimes a person just needs a vote of confidence to handle a
troublemaker.
I don't see any of this happening if such a list were archived in public.
#wikipedia and #wikipedia-en technically serves that function, but I've found that #wikipedia's more interested in what's on television (nothing wrong with off-topic chat, but sometimes it'd be nice to get a quick answer in there) and #wikipedia-en is kind of a barren deadzone. #wikipedia-en-vandalism has been my most reliable source of help recently, but very few regulars in there appear to be regulars in the other channels... Just a thought.
-- I'm not stupid, just selectively ignorant.