[WikiEN-l] Wikimediation

[steve v]

You're exactly right, Sannse, and you summed that up
much much more clearly than I would have. My theory
was that the codified isolation of MC and its results
was based in a fear that MC should be AC like -- which
is still my (vague) memory of it. But in any case,
your right -- ancient motivations are now irrelevant,
and whats left is the results, and the need for
reevaluation and restructuring.

S

--- sannse <sannse at tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

> steve v wrote:
> > WP:MC was originally built in as an
> > afterthought to the AC, and to assert a finer
> > difference, some strict bounds were implemented,
> > because 1) it was thought that mediators should be
> > prevented from becoming like the Arbcom, and 2) so
> > that somehow through strict WMIN (~WWIN)
> definitions,
> > its role would be more defined and sensible. IMHO
> > whats happened is that its generally been a bit
> > confused. MC was defined relative to AC, but
> without a
> > clear vision to what MC could do that would
> persist
> > through WPs since quadrupling in size and users.
> > Having no binding authority, and otherwise bogged
> down
> > with a "mutual acceptance" policy (now
> experimentally
> > being torched BTW), the result has been a bit
> > disorganized, and slow. 
> 
> This is a very distorted history of the mediation
> committee.  The 
> original committee was created at the same time as
> the arbitration 
> committee, and we decided on our rules and
> procedures independently. 
> One of the decisions we made was that each mediation
> would be carried 
> out independently and confidentially by a single
> mediator.  This had two 
> negative effects: the mediator did not have the
> support needed to 
> perform this difficult role, and any successes (and
> despite what has 
> been said there /were/ some successes) became
> invisible.
> 
> It's easy enough to burn out on the arbitration
> committee, where 
> problems can be talked through with the rest of the
> team - it's even 
> easier on the mediation committee where each
> mediator works alone.
> 
> Snowspinner's idea of a more open version of
> mediation is one I support 
> fully.
> 
> --sannse
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