[WikiEN-l] Admins shouldn't shoot back

[Marc Riddell]

on 6/23/07 3:39 AM, David Goodman at dgoodmanny at gmail.com wrote:

> I see a structure--a cellular structure of groups that only sometimes
> interact. If the group is reasonably small, under 50 or so--of whom in
> general 5 to 10 will actually be active, and if the interfaces between
> the groups are kept limited and channelized, the organization can
> continue.
> The cells I have in mind are he Wikiprojects. Many  of them work
> really well to maintain order in their work (I'm thinking particularly
> of Chemistry) and are reasonably hospitable to adequately informed
> newcomers. But they work only incidentally with the other groups. they
> appear in the general forums when something of critical concern to
> them appears, but otherwise they leave the rest of the wiki alone.
> Look at most of the admin candidates--they have each of them
> contributed substantially only within a scope of a few pages. When the
> become admins, they do a little general activity, but most remain
> fairly limited even in that. They are like the country members, who
> come to the capitol only on special occasion.

David,

Just thinking here: It would seem there are many active editors who are not
formal members of an established WP Project (myself included). This would
include persons who do mostly statistical editing (birth & death dates,
place of birth, sports stats, etc.) as well as grammatical cleanup and the
like. So as to involve all active editors in the Project's organization, how
about grouping them in their own Project?

Marc