Re: [WikiEN-l] Pedantry on privileges

2010-05-18 Thread stevertigo
Charles Matthews wrote: > Much confusion, it seems to me, between two "metrics" or axes: one to do > with fallibility (anyone can make mistakes relative to unfamiliar or > even familiar situations on the wikis, particularly when "implementation > details" are in the hands of self-selected groups a

Re: [WikiEN-l] Pedantry on privileges

2010-05-18 Thread Charles Matthews
Gregory Maxwell wrote: > Probing the bounds of your actual authority in our environment is a > necessary thing that all of us do with every BOLD action, it's a > consequence of the generally non-hierarchical nature of the projects. > So I don't think it's justified to flog someone forever when they

Re: [WikiEN-l] Pedantry on privileges

2010-05-17 Thread Carcharoth
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Gregory Maxwell wrote: > ISTM that Enwp users are  quite comfortable with Jimmy playing > an important role as he has traditionally The changes over time in the role Jimmy plays on en-wikipedia is an interesting question. There is far more material and actions

[WikiEN-l] Pedantry on privileges

2010-05-17 Thread Gregory Maxwell
On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 6:37 PM, Anthony wrote: > Wow, so he's able to delete content on *one* of the 200+ languages of > Wikipedia.  I'd still say the statement is substantially correct.  He used > to have unlimited power on every project to do anything.  Now he's > administrator on one project,