There are a few people (Anthere, TufKat, others?) who I neglected to include in my first list, but it is past the start of the year, and we have a few outstanding controversies that need to be addressed. So I'd like to move that we get things organized. Unorganized committees with no set procedures are worse than my benevolent dictatorship, I think, because there's no clear way to say what should be done.
Mediation and arbitration are very different activities. To recall, mediation is a no-penalty effort to resolve a conflict through 3rd party friendly intervention. The mediation committee seeks to find a way, on an article or in a personal conflict, for work to continue without further trouble.
The arbitration committee, on the other hand, can impose a solution that I'll consider to be binding, with of course the exception that I reserve the right of executive clemency and indeed even to dissolve the whole thing if it turns out to be a disaster. But I regard that as unlikely, and I plan to do it about as often as the Queen of England dissolves Parliament against their wishes, i.e. basically never, but it is one last safety valve for our values.
I'd like for a (relatively quick, as there's work to be done now) vote among each committee for a chairperson, who will be tasked with organizing the work. I'd say that the chair should come up with a plan of action, and propose some voting thresholds, and then with the input and consensus of the wider community, I'll stamp my official seal of approval on that.
--Jimbo
Jimbo wrote (in part):
There are a few people (Anthere, TufKat, others?) who I neglected to include in my first list, but it is past the start of the year, and we have a few outstanding controversies that need to be addressed.
Do you mean they weren't on the list but /are/ on one of the committees? Or are they not yet appointed?
I'd like for a (relatively quick, as there's work to be done now) vote among each committee for a chairperson, who will be tasked with organizing the work. I'd say that the chair should come up with a plan of action, and propose some voting thresholds, and then with the input and consensus of the wider community, I'll stamp my official seal of approval on that.
Perhaps as a first step the committee members could indicate whether they will be willing to take on that job? Or should we just go ahead and nominate someone as chair?
Regards
sannse
sannse wrote:
Perhaps as a first step the committee members could indicate whether they will be willing to take on that job? Or should we just go ahead and nominate someone as chair?
As a zeroeth step, can we be reminded of who's on which committee? I'm sure we all remember which ones we're on personally, but I for one don't remember who else is on which committee. Actually, this should probably be publically posted in the Wikipedia: namespace somewhere (or is it already and I missed it?).
-Mark
Mark wrote:
As a zeroeth step, can we be reminded of who's on which committee? I'm sure we all remember which ones we're on personally, but I for one don't remember who else is on which committee. Actually, this should probably be publically posted in the Wikipedia: namespace somewhere (or is it already and I missed it?).
The mediation committee is listed at [[Wikipedia:Mediation Committee]]
Originally I made at least one mistake in this listing - linking to [[User:Geoff]] rather than [[User:Llywrch]] (aka Geoff on the mailing list). Below is Jimbo's original list for the mediation committee and our user names (please shout if I made any other booboos in matching Jimbo's list with accounts)
Angela (User:Angela) LDan (User:LittleDan) Geoff (User:Llywrch) DanteAlighieri (User:Dante Alighieri) VancouverGuy (User:Vancouverguy) sannse (User:Sannse) Ed Poor (User:Ed Poor) Jussi-Ville Heiskanen (User:Cimon avaro) Stevertigo (User:Stevertigo)
The arbitration committee is listed at [[Wikipedia:Arbitrators]]
Jimbo's original list:
Gutza MyRedDice NoHat Epopt Fred Bauder Delirium Maveric149 Camembert Jdforrester Kat/UninvitedCompany Cunctator Erik Moeller
sannse a écrit:
Jimbo wrote (in part):
There are a few people (Anthere, TufKat, others?) who I neglected to include in my first list, but it is past the start of the year, and we have a few outstanding controversies that need to be addressed.
Do you mean they weren't on the list but /are/ on one of the committees? Or are they not yet appointed?
Let's see. I looked in my mail archives. Jimbo suggested candidates to write to him on the 3rd of october 2003.
I answered him I was interested on the 3rd of october of the same year, but was not very clear in my answer I suppose.
I was interested in practicing mediation, essentially if the conflict involved an non english; I think the issue goes much further than just the english wikipedia, since there is no arbitrator on international wikipedias, and that at least on fr, mediation is quite limited. I am interested in studying the process essentially.
TufKat asked just after Jimbo asked if someone was forgotten. Lir a little bit later.
Later in december, Jimbo said he was ok with us being part of the list.