Jesse W wrote:
On Jul 24, 2006, at 2:06 PM, Stan Shebs wrote:
But I don't think there's a whole lot of incentive or reward for leadership, so attempts tend to be brief and unsuccessful. Even if one manages to organize several like-minded editors into a cooperative effort, the newest of newbies can still come in and disrupt, oftentimes with the support of onlookers shrieking about cabals, and the would-be leader sees his/her investment in WP come to naught.
Then don't. Make a fork.
An overreaction. It's like observing a flaw in your country's political system, and deciding that the only possible solution is to secede, set up a competing country, and hope everybody moves there.
But so far it's been possible to add admins, arbcom, policy pages, RC patrols, vandalbots, etc, without having to have a fork each time.
My goal in this particular discussion is to get people to think about a class of interactions they see going on every day, and ask themselves if that is as good as we want it, or if there are fixes to be tried. An experiment in this area could be as simple and easy as a wikiproject formally appointing a "lead editor" that the project participants sign up to support - hardly an earthshaking event that requires forking!
Stan