The problem with the approach that we can let the "welcoming" and "friendliness" be an emergent behaviour, is that we're already many years into this and it's simply... not.
However the admin bit is an officially sanctioned method of enforcing rules. This is a lop-sided approach. To counter-balance the officially sanctioned rule enforcement, we need an *equally weighted* officially sanctioned welcoming committee type role that operates *on the level* of the editors exactly as an admin operates. A person well-suited to be an admin, is not necessarily and sometimes diametrically opposed to a person well-suited to be a welcomer. Whatever happened to the push to encourage editors to come back? W _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
