On 27/02/07, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
When I come back to one of these tasks after an absence, it takes concerted effort to navigate the web of rules and templates and informal policies. Even simple stuff like, "so what's the current policy on warning/blocking vandals, and which of the 100+ user warning templates should I use?". It tends to lead to me doing a small subset of things I feel confident in my familiarity with (new-article and recent-changes patrolling, mainly, and some prod-clearing), and avoiding anything else.
Ah, yep.
To be fair, some parts of our "process" do have concise documentation on the relevant page with nicely laid out bold text saying something like "If you're just wondering how to do [x], do these steps: 1, 2, 3, 4", and in those cases it's easier to get into them.
Rewrites for clarity are always a good idea, if you can form the patchwork of special cases into something coherent without losing hard-fought detail.
- d.