User:The wub/Wikiphilosophy

Wikiphilosophically I'm an eventualist (of course) and a member of the Association of Wikipedians Who Dislike Making Broad Judgments About the Worthiness of a General Category of Article, and Who Are in Favor of the Deletion of Some Particularly Bad Articles, but That Doesn't Mean They Are Deletionists, but these days would probably be described as more of an inclusionist. I believe that admins should just be regular users with a few extra tools, "janitors" would be a better term. Civility is important, but when so many people are engaged in such a vast exercise tackling big issues, vigorous debate is unavoidable and should not be stifled too much. Also I think that transparency (including intact page histories and logs) is one of the most important and undervalued virtues of Wikipedia.

Quotes
"The problem with Wikipedia is that it only works in practice. In theory, it can never work." - Anonymous (from Raul's laws)

"On Wikipedia, there is a giant conspiracy attempting to have articles agree with reality." - Plautus satire

"...classifying AfD is akin to sorting the contents of your neighbours' trashcan after they've emptied their cat litter [the stuff that survives CSD or prod] into it, in the quiet confidence you'll find a few glass bottles worth recycling, and with a 1 in 10,000 chance of recovering that missing ring you reckon their cat might have swallowed." - User:TheGrappler

"Actually, there was once a cabal, but it got deleted..." - Andjam

Links

 * User:NoSeptember/The NoSeptember Admin Project - a heap of admin related stats and other useful insights
 * Requests for adminship/Ragesoss
 * User:Improv/Quotes
 * User:Angela/What Wikipedia is not
 * We need a policy to deal with policy
 * User:Durin/Admin miscellany
 * User:Linuxbeak/There really isn't a cabal - but he would say that :-)
 * User:Revolución/Statement against Jimbocracy *rolleyes*
 * - User:Newyorkbrad's comment on decision making on WP:BN (rest of thread is also interesting)
 * User:Mboverload/Zero Featured Article - RfA criteria
 * - User:WCityMike's blog on why he left
 * User:Dbuckner/Expert rebellion
 * User:LinaMishima/Experts Problem
 * List of cabals - there's a fair few
 * this might explain why Wikipedia is often slow :-) (note it's since been changed, it used to contain the page All servers)
 * made me smile
 * User:Raul315
 * Knowledge Access as a Public Good - Danah Boyd
 * Bizarre And Improbable Giraffe Herding Techniques
 * Jimbo on automatic rights removal (!)