[WikiEN-l] Are things getting worse?

[Jimmy Wales]

Is the amount of internal squabbling getting worse or better?  My
rough sense is that it's getting worse, but maybe I'm just tired of it
and therefore perceiving it to be more of a problem lately.

What can we all do to build a sense of love and harmony?  What can
each of us do to alter our own behavior to be supportive of others,
less argumentative, more productive?

Is the mediation/arbitration system working to increase internal
political problems, or do decrease those problems?  Or, is it way too
early to tell?

My concern is that it seems to me that we're spending way too much
time on internal court intruigues, to our detriment.  Every day, it
seems, there's some new crisis of management, some new emergency ban,
some new sysop crossing the line.

Part of this was caused, I think, by a perceived power vacuum after
the start of the year.  I was out of the business of policing, but the
arbitration committee was still not ready.  Sysops felt a real need to
do something to stop some real problem users.  It was a vicious cycle.

But, what about now?  How can we bring about peace?

--Jimbo