John Lee wrote:
As for clandestine activities, that was another, well,
I think you can
only call it strawmanning. I never mentioned their names - I think
highly of Jimbo and Angela (I don't know Anthere well enough). It's just
rather odd and a bit annoying that the majority of editors who could and
would benefit from this still aren't informed, because they don't
subscribe to the mailing list.
When I first became involved it was mandatory that a person join the
mailing list before he could become a sysop. It's unfortunate that that
is no longer the case.
Each of us is limited in the number of lists and pages that he can
monitor. Once we reach that limit we just stop looking for more things
to monitor. The mailing lists alone now provide me with close to 100
messages per day. There are also several in-project pages that I look
at regularly that are more specific to the tasks that I have accepted.
I can't take the time to monitor everything that happens on meta or the
foundation pages or on Wikipedia's Village Pump, or to fully participate
in the endless debates and votes about policy minutiae. This does not
reflect a lack of interest, but a lack of time.
Perhaps a more serious look needs to be taken at how general
communications are handled to insure that those who should know about
something are properly informed. At the very least all sysops for all
projects should be required to join a general mailing list. (Just which
list may still be an open question.)
Ec