Having paid admins would shift the WMF or an affiliate in to being legally
responsible for the content on Wikipedia, it would also potentailly expose
those editors to additional issue in their own countries, or during their
travel
On 26 May 2018 at 17:52, David Cuenca Tudela <dacuetu(a)gmail.com> wrote:
it would be
too controversial having paid administrators.
Controversial for who? So far nobody stepped into this conversation to say
that direct support of community members with community money is not ok for
whatever reason they might have.
Regards,
Micru
On Sat, 26 May 2018, 10:35 Anders Wennersten, <mail(a)anderswennersten.se>
wrote:
My own reflection reading this discussion is that
there is a difference
between vandalism and POV pushing.
For vandalism we have better routines in place and also tools like ORES,
and also a system of steward who can acts in cases of crosswikivandals
For Pov pushing and especially cross wiki POV pushing we have no
routines in place, and no roles like he steward who can help out for
these cases.
I also have only positive experience interacting with stewards, both in
their willingness to help and alertness. And they have a very good tone
in conversations. And they are a bit separated from the communities.
And my loose thought in the end of my starting mail, was more to be open
to having paid something like POV-stewards who can get involved in tough
POVedits. And that these can offload the burden on admin when things
getting nasty
I am not a supporter of paid editors, and think it would be too
controversial having paid administrators.
Anders
Den 2018-05-26 kl. 09:38, skrev David Cuenca Tudela:
On Sat, May 26, 2018 at 7:41 AM, James Salsman
<jsalsman(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I'm not sure that's true. Whether it
started as a game of Nomic or
not, almost all of the admins have been elected through a certainly
established process.
That someone does an activity or that this person has been elected to
perform an activity doesn't mean that he or she is a professional. It
might
> be an occupation, but not a profession. On the en-wiki article about
> "profession" there are several milestones listed as how an occupation
> becomes a profession, the first one being that the occupation becomes a
> full-time occupation, all the rest are related to the establishment of
> professional bodies that regulate professionalization through training,
> ethics regulation, and licensing.
>
> In any case these matters are never clear-cut, they co-evolve over time
> based on the needs of the people involved. At this point of time I feel
> that the main need is talent retention while keeping the
volunteer-driven
> spirit. It is not easy to maintain the
social order when implementing
> changes like these, but I believe that with enough debate and
> consensus-making it would be possible to reach a satisfactory solution.
>
> From my side, I am open to more input, and more exchange of views.
After
> this conversation it might be interesting to
ask the people involved
and
> see how would they feel by being more
supported and appreciated by the
> community, then request to the community the necessary action to make
it
happen.
I think the Signpost article and the email that Anders sent to this
mailing
> list are very serious and they should be addressed efficiently and
> promptly. I personally cannot choose to ignore it, because I think that
> there are steps that can be taken and I would like to urge anyone
reading
this
message to at least join this conversation.
Regards,
Micru
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