Rebecca wrote:
I think is an excellent idea: kudos to you both.
The two things that I'd been keen to know first, however, are - would
this involve a reduction in the number of arbitrators, as in Michael's
proposal,
No. The number of arbitrators could well be increased. Michael wanted to
reduce the number of arbitrators to reduce the number of people required
for a decision, our proposal is to reduce that number more directly,
while retaining a low workload on each arbitrator and keeping a wide
variety of views on the committee.
and also - how many of the current group of
arbitrators are
active on IRC? I know James is (provided he plans to run for
re-election - I hope so) and also Mav, but I'm a bit concerned that
some people who've played a fairly crucial role this far - Fred
Bauder, for one, may not use IRC.
Not all of them use IRC. We can provide technical support to help
arbitrators install a client on their computer. We could also set up a
CGI:IRC gateway, or make a proxy available, if it proves to be
necessary. The idea of setting up a CGI:IRC gateway for all the
Wikipedia channels has been suggested before, we could probably just do
that, if we have the hardware resources.
-- Tim Starling