[WikiEN-l] A modest proposal - a recap of resolution-l

[stevertigo]

I'm proposing that we start a resolution-l mailing list.

Yes, I know we talked about it a month ago, to the tune of about 100
posts, and it seemed that it wasn't going anywhere. But that was just
appearances. The reality is that the support was substantial, the
opposition was sub-articulate, and whatever substantive criticism
there was was largely based in some assumed misconceptions about its
scope (Thomas).

The real truth is that we have been waiting for Cary to fulfill one of
his many duties and create the list. That having failed, we have been
waiting on Cary to tell us why he has not. That also having failed, we
instead have just been waiting a month for Cary to say anything at
all. And he recently did, though there was little substance in it,
other than a threat to close the bug request. Which in fact, he just
did close as WONTFIX:
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=19414 . I'm sure he
thinks he's doing the right thing. Still, despite our recent
differences, we should welcome Cary's actual participation in our
discussion. Thank you Cary, we understand that you were just too busy
to give this proper consideration.

Anyway, we were talking about an open list for discussing dispute
resolution. Its scope will be broad, and its purpose will be to be
helpful. It will discuss particular disputes in general, conceptual,
and editorial terms, and facilitate immediate on-wiki dispute
resolution processes. It will also discuss dispute resolution concepts
in general, wherever that goes.

-Stevertigo
Architect of WP:CIVIL,
creator of Arbcom,
Inventor of those WP:Shortcuts