On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I think this is a communety thing. Its to bad that you lost your >> adminship but why should people from other projects step in? >> I mean this is something on the en.source not a global thing. >> huib >> >> -- > > I have no idea of the en.ws situation, nor do I want to have any idea, but > I would like to remark that leaving such things to the community decision > is a good idea only if the community itself is big enough. Otherwise, it > is easy for a group of individuals, or even for an individual to introduce > their own rules which may be incompatible with the general purposes of the > project. In this case, an external help may be needed. For instance, this > is what happened a year ago on ru.wb when the only admin has been > desysopped after it has been discovered and reported on this very list > that he arbitrarily abused and blocked other users and removed edits. > > Again, I am not really aware of the situation on en.ws, I have no idea > whether this project is big enough to solve their own problems within the > project, and I do not want to make any statements about any users over > there. (As a matter of fact, I never logged in to en.ws). I just wanted to > say that not every project is capable with solving its own problems.
I agree with this. English Wikisource does not have a mediation framework, and I didnt participate in that desysop discussion as much as I should have, due to time constraints. The next step would be a meta RFC, or something like an offwiki discussion. I am happy to participate in something like that if it would help. What I will say now is that Eclecticology is a great contributor to the English Wikisource project, and I hope he continues to be. The main project that he has been working on, [[s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900]], has been exempt from the structure imposed on the rest of the project, as a way of reducing the tensions. -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
