The problem seems to lie in smaller, more authoritarian communities.
Any Wiki could turn into a dictatorship with the policy we currently have in place. The bureaucrats get to make all of the decisions. Of course, they can be voted out, but I don't think it's likely that people would attempt to organise a vote against someone who has probably already scared them away.
Something of this sort seems to've happened at cz.wiki. There was a rift. Some admins wanted to unblock one guy, but the bureaucrat didn't like him.
Thus it seems to me that every Wiki should have two or more bureaucrats.
Mark
On 02/11/05, Fred Bauder fredbaud@ctelco.net wrote:
This is particularly important in the case of disruptive users who an administrator has blocked for a long period of time, perhaps indefinitely. Any administrator who feels it is appropriate can unblock them, but if no one out of hundreds of administrators is willing to, perhaps it is best to leave it in place.
The downside is that some of those blocked don't know how to ask to be unblocked as perhaps they would be unblocked if they knew better who to appeal to.
Fred
On Nov 1, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Andrew Lih wrote:
On English Wikipedia, this often happens. It's not a matter of "right" but at the admin level, unless it's an arbcomm decree, it's done in a wiki-like manner.
-Andrew (User:Fuzheado)
On 11/2/05, Andre Engels andreengels@gmail.com wrote:
What is the policy on other Wikipedias concerning unblocking users. In particular, does a sysop have the right to unblock an IP another sysop blocked, if he thinks the block was unreasonably long?
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