Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:00:15 -0500
From: charlottethewebb(a)gmail.com
To: wikien-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Arbcom
On 10/16/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen(a)shaw.ca> wrote:
This is the main reason I've never seriously
considered running myself.
I've been with the project since 2001, and I've taken on many
large-scale long-term editing projects, but there's always been the
option of simply stopping what I'm doing when it becomes too tedious and
doing something else instead. If I've made a definite commitment like
running for ArbCom, on the other hand, I'd feel terrible if I dropped
out partway through. And three years is rather a long time to feel
terrible for.
For better or worse you would not be expected to participate in every
case, or even the majority of them. For what little it's worth if you
do run, you'll have my undivided support.
—C.W.
Oh, and this is another problem: three-year terms are far too long. No one can reasonably
be expected to last three whole years at the really pointy end of Wikipedia. Life
doesn't work that way: people get bored, get a new job, new life, new woman, new kids,
whatever. Things change. I seem to recall a rule of thumb on Meatball, which stated that
the average maximum length of participation in online communities was 3 years. We expect
our arbitrators do have been around for well over a year before we elect them. Using
Meatball's rule, we're only going to get another year and a half out of them, at
best. Not good.
Moreschi
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