This is somewhat off-topic but.. Whilst that is a somewhat glib view of the smaller projects :P it's not entirely inaccurate.
By virtue of being smaller and starved of editors it is a lot easier to gain permissions at those projects. In fact, if one of us (established editors) was banned from Wikipedia tomorrow I reckon it would not take long to get installed at another project and become admin (hell, it only took me 9 months to con you lot on en.wiki :-P) and maybe beyond. It's not a fault of the smaller projects - but any pretty active contributor is likely to advance further and faster than on English Wikipedia. The solution to this is actually simple, but non-trivial - *go do some work on the smaller projects.* I realise this is not the *easiest *approach, but I am (sloooowly) doing my bit on Wikibooks and I think everyone could find something to interest them, if only for a while. If we (English Wikipedia editors) took a moment to go contribute a few pages to some of the smaller Wiki's and take part in some of the discussions that might find a lot more favour there. And then when a disruptive editor of this scale appears we wouldn't have to be navigating the minefield of global bans (and communities getting people around them), but just have a quick personal word with some of the admins there... Just a thought... I do also support the idea of working on a formal global ban process. On the other hand; the independence of the individual wiki's is crucial, so any such ban process works only as far as projects will accept it. Tom On 3 June 2011 21:47, MZMcBride <z...@mzmcbride.com> wrote: > Scott MacDonald wrote: > > I'm now actually wondering whether there is a structural problem in > getting > > lunatics like poetlister banned, or whether it is just the case that one > > community (wikiversity) is seriously messed up. > > Projects, like children, need love. Wikiversity _only_ gets attention when > a > problematic editor shows up there. It isn't surprising that an unloved > project could be viewed as "messed up." > > If you really want to ban this account over there, surely you can just run > for adminship and wait a week. :-) > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
