[WikiEN-l] AC with a small quorum and IRC meetings

[Rebecca]

I think is an excellent idea: kudos to you both.

The two things that I'd been keen to know first, however, are - would
this involve a reduction in the number of arbitrators, as in Michael's
proposal, and also - how many of the current group of arbitrators are
active on IRC? I know James is (provided he plans to run for
re-election - I hope so) and also Mav, but I'm a bit concerned that
some people who've played a fairly crucial role this far - Fred
Bauder, for one, may not use IRC.

That said, I think this would go a long way towards the bottleneck at
the heart of all of this.

-- ambi


On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:30:04 +1100, Tim Starling
<t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
> Mav and I had a chat today on IRC about the arbitration committee, and
> we came to a somewhat different and more aggressive model to the one
> Michael Snow is proposing.
> 
> I can take very little credit for this, since our discussion basically
> consisted of me putting forward my ideas, Mav saying his were better,
> and me agreeing.
> 
> The basic problem, as I think we all understand, is that the Arbitration
> Committee is slow. It is slow because some of the members don't reply to
> emails and don't watch the relevant pages on the wiki. What emails they
> do send are few and far between.
> 
> The first and most important measure to improve the speed of the AC is
> to reduce the necessary quorum to three members. Decisions are made by a
> simple majority. Any member of the arbitration committee may request a
> review of such decisions by the full committee.
> 
> The second is that deliberation should be conducted by IRC, not email.
> Cases will still be accepted on the wiki, and findings will still be
> announced on the wiki. But deliberations will be performed by any and
> all AC members present in #arbcom.wikipedia, as long as there is more
> than three of them.
> 
> Under this proposal, the size of the arbitration committee can expand to
> meet the ever-increasing demands placed on them. Preliminary judgements
> leading to blocking pending a full review should be possible within
> minutes of a request.
> 
> I'll put up this proposal on the wiki some time in the next couple of
> days, unless someone else beats me to it.
> 
> -- Tim Starling
> 
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