[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:07 PM, wiki <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> A leader(ship) would find it easier
> to say "thank you, you're right, we should do this, but please could you
> tone it down a bit".

I thought that is what (some) arbitrators *did* say to you! Maybe the
message got garbled in the transmission.

But that is the problem. Even if ArbCom says something like that,
there is no guarantee that people will listen, or that sometimes
subtle points will come across in the rather civil language
arbitrators have to use. After all, if the people involved in disputes
were the listening sort, there would be less disputes.

Carcharoth