[Foundation-l] Remembering the People (was Fundraiser update)

[David Gerard]

2009/1/10 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:
> on 1/10/09 6:59 AM, David Gerard at dgerard at gmail.com wrote:

>> I note that I have asked you before if you've actually attempted to
>> work directly with the community on-wiki, and you demurred:
>> http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2009-January/097693.html
>> You claim to be defending the community in the abstract, but don't
>> appear to want to put in the effort to actually work directly with the
>> people in said community.

> David, if you mean the endless, circular, defensive battles that go on in
> the Talk Pages of the English Wikipedia, no; I am not willing to put what
> time I have there. The objective in such warfare seems to be to win at any
> cost; not a discussion to resolve issues in a cause both sides of the
> argument supposedly believe in and want to improve. There needs to be a
> better mechanism for such discussions; or, at least, a culture more skilled
> in the process of arbitration and decision making.


Yes, people are difficult to work with and remain the key problem in
dealing with them. What do you propose to deal with this?

(I submit that something that absolves you of actually having to work
with them and convince them is not likely to work.)


- d.