[WikiEN-l] ANI curiosity

[Al Tally]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 11:34 AM, FT2 <ft2.wiki at gmail.com> wrote:

> Some off-wiki response-seeking...
>
> A couple of comments at the administrator's noticeboard (AN) about the
> quality of ANI discussion have led to a short post on-wiki asking for
> perceptions:
>
> A user's suggested in passing in an AN discussion, that they feel there can
> be issues at ANI:
>
>
>   - *"For whatever reason, discussions at WP:AN seem to be a little more
>      calm and rational than ANI"*
>      - *"ANI is a bit like throwing chum into a pool of sharks. It's just
>      the mentality there"*
>      - *"AN doesn't seem to attract as many drama seekers [as ANI]"*
>
>  Quick feedback: some truth to it? A lot? Not much?
>
>  A simple request for thoughts.
>
> Since ANI and VP tend to be followed by more experienced users and admins,
> I'm posting it on the en mailing list to increase the exposure and odds of
> feedback being given from non-admins.
> Link to on-wiki
> post<
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators'_noticeboard#ANI_curiosity<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Administrators%27_noticeboard#ANI_curiosity>
> >
>
> FT2
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I recently unwatched AN/I because I felt pretty much those exact feelings. I
wasn't personally affected by issues raised there, and nor did I post there
a lot, but the amount of stupidity that showed up in my watchlist often made
me involve myself. The same goes for RFA talk, which I no longer watch
either.

There are differences between the two pages. My view is that incidents
should be for messages that require immediate intervention - i.e. an
incident that requires attention now. The other noticeboard should be for
things less urgent, such as community bans, general notices, major changes
to policy, RFCs needing input etc. Many seem to interchange the two
noticeboards.

AN/I has its uses, but could very easily be split off into other places and
marked historical.

-- 
Alex
(User:Majorly)