On 30 December 2010 11:06, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Tim Starling wrote:
>> OK, if you want a real answer: I think if you could convince admins to >> be nicer to people, then that would make a bigger impact to >> Wikipedia's long-term viability than any ease-of-editing feature. >> Making editing easier will give you a one-off jump in editing >> statistics, it won't address the trend. > Given that there are about 770 active administrators[2] on the English > Wikipedia and I think you could reasonably say that a good portion are not > mean, is it really quite a few people who are having this far-reaching > impact that you're suggesting exists? That seems unlikely. There is some discussion of how the community and ArbCom enable grossly antisocial behaviour on internal-l at present. Admin behaviour is enforced by the ArbCom, and the AC member on internal-l has mostly been evasive. It's not clear what approach would work at this stage; it would probably have to get worse before the Foundation could reasonably step in. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
