Erik Moeller wrote:

Please review for any errors.

"Jimbo's active influence is very limited, however, as he believes in the principle of minimal interference. That does not mean that he is lazy: He reads almost every post on the mailing lists and responds to many of them, but in most cases, he tries to let the wiki-system and WikiLove work their magic."

This has two errors. The most glaring is the claim that I'm not lazy. I most certainly am! ;-)

But seriously, I'm not sure what "the principle of minimal interference" is, so I'm not sure that I agree with it.

The reason that I almost never edit on the Wikipedia itself is that since I'm called on to make tough political choices, it's best that I not get involved in battles over particular pages.

I often dig through people's edit histories when there is a controversy, and I try to mediate conflicts as I see them happening.

Now that the website is not so slow, I might try monitoring specific talk pages to try to mediate conflicts before they blow into the mailing list.

--Jimbo