Berto 'd Sera wrote:
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 don't think we should expect the WMF to solve this kind of problem.
This may be the kind of situation where a steward should step in to help
them find a solution.
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.
In the current dispute both parties are fluent English speakers so it
could probably work. In some cases like wikis in other First Nations
languages there may be nobody else available who is capable of
understanding the language. At least attempting mediation would only
need one person to look into the problem, and the disputants would need
to provide a summary of the situation.
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.
Except for broad Wiki-wide principles rules in a 2-person wiki can be
fairly meaningless. Either can propose a rule, and have the other half
of the membership opposed to that rule.
Do we have any en.wiki (or other) admins who are native american /
first peoples / etc. and interested in possibly joining as a
tiebreaker / otherwise uninvolved voice of reason on this project?
Or failing that, just someone with some bandwidth who isn't otherwise involved?
--
-george william herbert
george.herbert(a)gmail.com