John Vandenberg wrote: > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > >> 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. > I am amenable to a solution of this sort.
> 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. Fair enough, and while continuing work on that project, I have seen fit to limit my insistence on broadly applying my viewof the disputed structure. I still believe that my approach is a better one, but have for some time already taken the approach that that can best be exhibited by essentially limiting my approach to one encyclopedic work and one periodical [[s:McClure's Magazine]]. In part, it was to reduce tensions, but there was a recognition that I had a limited amount of time for working at it. Ec _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
