[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee elections, 2005

Wed Oct 26 14:56:46 UTC 2005

David Gerard wrote:

>One of the things the AC has been doing this year, to fill gaps as
>they come up, is to actively look around the wiki for sufficiently
>clueful people to recruit to the AC. This is harder than you might
>think, because a lot of the best prospects for the job fairly sensibly
>run screaming from the idea. But we have ways and means to convince
>them ;-)
>  
>
Yes, I think this is the major thing that needs to be done.  There are 
issues with the selection process, but by and large the biggest one is 
with the lack of qualified and interested candidates.  Even a lot of 
initially interested people burn out pretty quickly: I think more than 
half the arbitrators we've ever had have resigned before the end of 
their terms.  I know I fairly quickly (probably 5-6 months in) started 
realizing that I would rather put in the time writing new articles.

-Mark