On 1/3/06, Ryan Delaney ryan.delaney@gmail.com wrote:
Incidentally, I agree with this, but the problem is that it will really become harder and harder to screen candidates accurately. Do you have any suggestions on how this could be done in some kind of scalable fashion?
Ryan
I think a simple way to do this is to start having a minimum number of net supports. 30, perhaps. This insures that the candidate is known enough around Wikipedia. When the readership and editor numbers of Wikipedia increases, so can the net support number, in order to accurately reflect the population.
Another way is to promote a change in the voting mindset. I think that we are too big and important to have support people with a simple "Oh, s/he looks like a good editor. '''Support''' ~~~~"
My personal policy is to only vote for a candidate if I can personally vouch for their editing, conflict handling, and janitorial abilities. There was a time when I would support every candidate that looked ready. I eventually realized that was only hurting the 'pedia, since even a good editor can go a bit crazy with admin tools due to a lack of understanding.
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