Perhaps you should just leave the Navajo Wikipedia.
On 2/22/07, Berto 'd Sera albertoserra@ukr.net wrote:
Hi!
I do not know this guy personally, I have spoken with you (Mark) only here and quite casually, so all I can say is based on what I see/read/guess. IMHO, you either have a simple personal problem OR you have different conceptions of what should be done with the wiki.
Pls stop unblocking yourself asap and only ask for external intervention (as you are already doing, I seem to understand). I know that asking something is easy, but getting WMF to make ANY decision (even the most elementary ones) is actually harder than changing Earth's Orbit with your bare hands, so one can easily be tempted by a "Do It Yourself" solution. After all it's what wikies are about, isn't it? Yet when it gets to conflict it's the wrong way, believe me.
I'd really welcome an external "sort of U.N." ArbCom for things like these. I know it's not nice when we have to deal with annoying petty quarrels but someone must do the job, because no job gets done by leaving it on the table until the paper on which its specs are written gets destroyed by time.
Many people will probably rate it a waste of time since it's about a 2 people community. But if you cannot ensure that things go smooth and everybody's rights are respected when it's a small community.... then the winner will start to ban every newcomer who is not "politically correct" and there you go. It doesn't really matter whether the choice is made based on politics, religion, sexual orientation or just personal sympathy.
The result is but one anyway: only those who comply with "the rules" stay in and the community grows as a sect. Once it's not going to be just 2 guys but a full 300 people monolithically structured around some implicit "belief" of theirs... then you bet you're going to have a hard time in making that wiki behave like a wiki should.
Bèrto 'd Sèra Personagi dl'ann 2006 për l'arvista american-a Time (tanme tuti vojàotri) http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1569514,00.html
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