on 1/8/09 9:20 PM, Erik Moeller at erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
2009/1/8 Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net:
This is pure unsubstantiated rhetoric. There are real-life, real-time problems - serious problems - that directly involve the people occurring in the English Wikipedia for example. Where is your help?
Marc, can you give examples of what kind of help you'd like to see?
Yes, Erik, I can. Just two for now, it's been a long day for me and I still have tomorrow's sessions to prepare for.
* A person at the Foundation level who has true, sensitive inter-personal as well a inter-group skills, and who would keep a close eye on the Project looking for impasses when they arise. The person would need to be objective and lobby-resistant ;-). This would be the person of absolute last resort in settling community-confounding problems.
*This is more of a cultural issue: I would like to see the more established members of the community be more open to criticism and dissent from within the community. As it is now that tolerance is extremely low. I'm not talking about me; I'm an old Berkeley war horse and have been called things I had to look up :-). But I have gotten private emails from persons in the community with legitimate beefs, along with some good ideas for change, but are very reluctant to voice them because of how they believe they will be received.
Erik, there are some truly terrific, bright and creative people within the greater Wikipedia Community. We really need to have a culture that makes room for them all.
Be healthy,
Marc