Fadix wrote: The wiki does not operate by force. We were all newbies at one time, and we learned to understand NPOV through experience (though some who have been around for a long time still don't understand it). Help from administrators is fine, but when those administrators insist upon a particular interpretation of NPOV they are no longer acting in the spirit of NPOV. Ec

I'll volunteer to do it, though I think that we should have more than one listadmin so that there's someone around even if one person takes a vacation or becomes inactive, or something of that sort. Btw, any idea what to name this list? -Jtkiefer

On 10/9/05, Jtkiefer <jtkiefer(a)wordzen.net> wrote: You may have already found this out, but it's called Helpdesk-l : http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/helpdesk-l Cheers, Cormac

On 10/9/05, Jtkiefer <jtkiefer(a)wordzen.net> wrote: Hm? Angela's announcement of the list and request for admins was on September 4th! C

On 10/9/05, Cormac Lawler <cormaggio(a)gmail.com> wrote: Yes, it was a month ago, and there are now four list admins, which is more than enough. However, help is still needed with actually answering the questions sent to that list, which anyone can do by just subscribing at http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/helpdesk-l Angela.

On 10/10/05, Ilya N. <ilyanep(a)gmail.com> wrote: There's a good probability, at least to my eye, that people simply don't get the helpdesk - they leave questions, sort of, eventually - but they just never come back and look at them again. A sizable proportion of "please explain what you mean"s are never replied to - how often do people (esp. with the completely random things) look back to the helpdesk? Email at least ensures we can know that they *got* the answer, even if they ignore it. It's also a friendlier medium - people understand email a lot better than they do a (heavily trafficked) wikipage, and so it's going to be more productive. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk

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