Well, it’s official - I’ve joined the English Wikipedia’s Mediation Commitee, the official organisation for solving disputes in a peaceful manner. This means I will be putting a fair chunk of wikitime into trying to get people to work together to make the encyclopedia better. Mediations there usually involve incredibly verbose ramblings down talkpages, spiralling slowly into incivility. However, it’s my job to attempt to detangle said mess and improve things for everyone.

Wikipedia has a pretty solid dispute resolution system but the ‘official’ (in other words, last resort) routes are committee mediation and then if all else fails the sister arbitration committee, which has the power to start forcing solutions. Mediators are only there to suggest and nudge, which is great. We have a well developed system that generally works.

You will probably have noticed that the site has been redesigned again. I’m not going to explain it all as I have already done so on the about page. Go there, read, consume, understand. Gain knowledge of my unentertaining self.