[WikiEN-l] How many Arbitrators should we have?

Wed Oct 5 22:29:15 UTC 2005

I wouldn't mind. Most of everything I do on wikipedia is mechanical,
janitorial stuff (new pages patrol, copyvios, greeting newbies, some
imagetagging, etc.) This would essentially be the same, just alot more
work per case. I'm also an intelligent bloke, with very little history
of disputes and a thorough knowledge of wp-polices and practices.

I'm sure I'm not alone, lots of people do staggeringly amounts of
braindead, mind-numblingly boring stuff all the day.

--gkhan

On 10/6/05, Michael Turley <michael.turley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/5/05, Theresa Knott <theresaknott at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/5/05, Fred Bauder <fredbaud at ctelco.net> wrote:
> > > One of the things which would greatly  improve  functioning and
> > > retention of arbitrators is effective advocates who would select and
> > > present evidence which illustrated the contentions of the parties. As
> > > it is now the arbitrators themselves are forced to view the
> > > ridiculous amounts of irrelevant crap which the parties advance as
> > > "evidence" and try to figure out on their own what is going on.
> > >
> > > Fred
> >
> > I'll second that!
>
> Who would be insane enough to take the position, yet reliable enough
> to be useful at it?
>
> The assistants would be "forced to view the ridiculous amounts of
> irrelevant crap" and then, after wading through the morass of garbage,
> nearing enlightenment and ultimate understanding of the conflict, give
> it over to others to make the decisions.
>
> I don't know anyone willing to do that.
>
> It works in the judicial system because of the hierarchy of reward and
> responsibilities; pay your dues, and you can work your way up to a
> better job, more prestige, and more pay.  But on Wikipedia, everything
> is egalitarian; there are few paths "up", and going "up" doesn't earn
> you much.  If you change that, so everything isn't as flat as it can
> be as still run smoothly, you'll ruin the Wiki.
>
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> Michael Turley
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