Amir: your original idea is lovely. Reviving it for a moment:
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 4:31 AM, Yaroslav M. Blanter putevod@mccme.ru wrote:
Now, I found it. Indeed, I exaggerated (not several hundreds, just a hundred, and not overnight, but over two or three days, but the idea is
The poll: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Forum/Archives/2008-07#Global_sysop...
Yet we now have global sysops. It did take a bit of perseverance. If we selected for and named Facilitators on the projects for their mediation skills, we might have a few thousand of those in addition to our administrators as a pool of people fully competent to carry out any of the suggestions we're discussing -- they all seem plausible and possible to get passed to me.
Amir writes:
Now i, in general, think that these permissions should be given liberally to as many reasonable Wikimedians as possible.
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In fact it's quite likely that communities will want to give as little permissions as possible to users.
Can you explain the apparent paradox above?
I would be more strongly in favor of this proposal if it was clear to me how splitting up permissions would give access to them to more people. For instance, I think the ability to see and read deleted articles should be available to basically everyone.
Ziko van Dijk's "Tell us about your Wikipedia" project [1] in 2008 was advertised through sitenotice on Meta and it was quite successful. ...low-hanging fruit. [1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tell_us_about_your_Wikipedia
Indeed.
SJ