All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part IX

[robkelk]

Hello, Reception. I might be unique in being an administrator on All The Tropes who was not an editor at TVTropes before the wiki fork, so my concerns have different priorities from everyone else's here.

Something bad happened, with plenty of blame to go around. My primary concern is how to make sure it doesn't happen again.

Brent has an idea about that:

I feel like Miraheze would be well served to have new policies to help prevent mistakes:

• If at all possible, if a steward is a party in a dispute, they should play no role in a disciplinary process other than as a witness.
• Any steward acting in a disciplinary role should explain the consequences to the relevant parties, both before and after taking action.  The "before" step should be a chance to let the behavior stop.
• If disciplinary actions are taking place within one of our wiki communities, stewards should give notice to local staff (particularly bureaucrats) before taking the action.

The main point would be to prevent mistakes, to prevent the community from thinking that the process was corrupt or whatever.  It's not saying we need an ArbCom or anything, just that we follow some sort of a procedure.

Do you have any ideas for this?
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012