[Foundation-l] Friendliness: a radical proposal -- some proposed details ...

[Steven Walling]

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 2:39 PM, <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:

> The problem with the approach that we can let the "welcoming" and
> "friendliness" be an emergent behaviour, is that we're already many years
> into this
> and it's simply... not.
>
> However the admin bit is an officially sanctioned method of enforcing
> rules.
>
> This is a lop-sided approach.  To counter-balance the officially sanctioned
> rule enforcement, we need an *equally weighted* officially sanctioned
> welcoming committee type role that operates *on the level* of the editors
> exactly
> as an admin operates.
>
> A person well-suited to be an admin, is not necessarily and sometimes
> diametrically opposed to a person well-suited to be a welcomer.
>

See the Wiki Guides project for an attempt to do something like what you're
describing.[1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wiki_Guides