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2007, at a time when such an institution already existed on ten other Wikimedia projects (some of which were consulted about their experiences). Discussion is ongoing, with many users opining that electing new arbitrators won't be enough to solve the problem and that some sort of reform is needed. In April 2009, the
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at once, leaving only two active arbitrators, below the minimum of five. The resignation statements cited multiple reasons, among them internal conflicts, lack of a clear mandate in certain matters, and lack of authority within the community. The German Knowledge had introduced an ArbCom in April
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I agree that in policy discussion it can be very useful to examine the experiences of other projects in analogous matters. However, it also has to be said that there exist considerable differences between arbcoms on different projects. In the article I already alluded to the late founding of the
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I think we can expect to see the resignation of the German and the abolition of the Spanish ArbComs having an effect here. There's been considerable controversy generated this year by the en ArbCom. The current governance model is failing.
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User:Fritzpoll says: "We have two major problems around good-faith new articles that aren't up to our standards: the need to get them out of the mainspace and the desire not to
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The features enhance the editing window and editing toolbar, and can be enabled through User preferences, by going to the 'Editing' tab and selecting 'Experimental features.'
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has been left without a central institution for conflict resolution, after seven members of the arbitration committee ("Schiedsgericht")
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has reached 15,000 news reports, overtaking the English Wikinews to become the largest Wikinews version (by number of articles).
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new editors. The Article Incubator should help with both and we'll take articles from any venue where it is deemed appropriate:
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extension, described as "a next-generation discussion system for MediaWiki". The extension, originally developed as a
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German arbcom. And it seems that at least the "lack of authority" concerns would apply less here on en:. To to quote
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if they show the potential to meet Knowledge standards. It is suggested as a better solution than
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as it allows collaborative editing and improvement to continue, and avoids issues over
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Article Incubator, Wikipedians take Manhattan, new features in testing, and much more
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Seeing a photo credited to a "Gerbil" on the Nobel Prize site is very amusing. :)
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is a planned scavenger hunt and free content photography contest coordinated with
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ever had, but a few individual members cause petty scandals every now and then)."
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the first part of a farewell interview with outgoing Chief Technology Officer
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Scheduled for Saturday, 10 October 2009, this event will be a sequel to
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will be held this week from 04:00 to 05:00 UTC on Wednesday 7 October.
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Portraits from Commons used in official Nobel Prize announcement
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its ArbCom ("Comité de Resolución de Conflictos") altogether.
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system, facilitating more organised and effective discussion.
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chat with Rand Montoya, WMF Head of Community Giving, is now
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articles covering the wondrous sights of the isle of
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