On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Daniel Mayer wrote:
It might be a good idea to have a private email list for mediation: list members would have to approved by a list moderator and when a particular mediation is over all list members would be unsubscribed by the moderator.
There would be no public archive.
If needed there could be several mediation lists so that several mediations can go on at once.
Just a thought.
On the other hand, it'd be useful to have some kind of record of each moderation, describing the outcome. Even if the outcome could be described in a sentence or two, e.g. "Parties involved exchanged views, understood each other's POV, agreed to minimize conflict in the future" or "Parties involved could not agree on anything, mediation failed."
With enough of these records, it would help identify who plays nice on Wikipedia. Entering into mediation should be a way to identify problems in the process, & not a black mark on all parties involved.
Geoff