[WikiEN-l] AC with a small quorum and IRC meetings

Tue Nov 9 11:53:40 UTC 2004

I don't use it but can access it.

Fred

> From: Rebecca <misfitgirl at gmail.com>
> Reply-To: Rebecca <misfitgirl at gmail.com>, English Wikipedia
> <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2004 21:59:38 +1100
> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] AC with a small quorum and IRC meetings
> 
> I think is an excellent idea: kudos to you both.
> 
> The two things that I'd been keen to know first, however, are - would
> this involve a reduction in the number of arbitrators, as in Michael's
> proposal, and also - how many of the current group of arbitrators are
> active on IRC? I know James is (provided he plans to run for
> re-election - I hope so) and also Mav, but I'm a bit concerned that
> some people who've played a fairly crucial role this far - Fred
> Bauder, for one, may not use IRC.
> 
> That said, I think this would go a long way towards the bottleneck at
> the heart of all of this.
> 
> -- ambi
> 
> 
> On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 19:30:04 +1100, Tim Starling
> <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>> Mav and I had a chat today on IRC about the arbitration committee, and
>> we came to a somewhat different and more aggressive model to the one
>> Michael Snow is proposing.
>> 
>> I can take very little credit for this, since our discussion basically
>> consisted of me putting forward my ideas, Mav saying his were better,
>> and me agreeing.
>> 
>> The basic problem, as I think we all understand, is that the Arbitration
>> Committee is slow. It is slow because some of the members don't reply to
>> emails and don't watch the relevant pages on the wiki. What emails they
>> do send are few and far between.
>> 
>> The first and most important measure to improve the speed of the AC is
>> to reduce the necessary quorum to three members. Decisions are made by a
>> simple majority. Any member of the arbitration committee may request a
>> review of such decisions by the full committee.
>> 
>> The second is that deliberation should be conducted by IRC, not email.
>> Cases will still be accepted on the wiki, and findings will still be
>> announced on the wiki. But deliberations will be performed by any and
>> all AC members present in #arbcom.wikipedia, as long as there is more
>> than three of them.
>> 
>> Under this proposal, the size of the arbitration committee can expand to
>> meet the ever-increasing demands placed on them. Preliminary judgements
>> leading to blocking pending a full review should be possible within
>> minutes of a request.
>> 
>> I'll put up this proposal on the wiki some time in the next couple of
>> days, unless someone else beats me to it.
>> 
>> -- Tim Starling
>> 
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