Excellent comments by Bod Notbod. Posting my response under the 'A modest proposal - a recap of resolution-l' thread.
-Stevertigo On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:31 AM, Bod Notbod<bodnot...@gmail.com> wrote: > I like transparency too. > > It makes me pause to wonder whether a dispute resolution mailing list > is actually against the grain of that. I've only recently signed up to > a couple of the mailing lists as I intend to get (and am getting) more > involved with Wikipedia. These lists have a pretty low profile, I'd > say. > > Whilst these mailing lists are, I believe, open for everyone to join, > it still strikes me as a bit of a back door: I would have thought it > far more transparent to deal with all dispute resolution on the wiki > itself where people can see what's going on (and people can place > relevant links easily) rather than in an email list which is going to > have a rather different audience. > > To put it another way, if I were an editor in dispute with someone > else and I wasn't subscribed to the mailing list and I become aware > the other person was discussing it there, I think I'd rightly feel > that there was something "going on" in a sort of conspiratorial way > and that a conscious effort had been made to circumvent tackling my > points. > > The wiki (en, at least) doesn't seem short of ways and means to deal > with disputes. I'm somewhat sceptical about the motivation in creating > a new channel for disputes that requires all parties to sign up for an > email service to be fully cognisant of where that dispute is heading. > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l