Talk:Mediation planning group

Please place your ideas and/or support/oppose opinions in the appropriate sections.

Group name suggestions

• Meta Mediation ~Kylu (u|t) 21:44, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Structure suggestions

• Free-form informal
• Formal

General points

What sort of conflicts would a meta mediation group be receiving? What scope is intended to be covered? Will this be purely mediation orientated, or will it include elements of uninvolved editor feedback? Will there be a formal structure to the group, or will it be purely informal volunteers? Vassyana 09:11, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

I'd suggest:

1. My idea was for Meta Mediation to handle situations where there's a personal dispute (not a content dispute, typically, but upon acceptance of a mediator sure) and the local wiki has no formal dispute resolution policy.
2. We would handle disputes between wikis (which I suspect should be rare), disputes between users on wikis with no DR policy, and disputes based on Meta and other "inside" wikis (but not private wikis) where a dispute resolution system is outside that project's scope. Disputes on projects subservient to certain groups (foundationwiki, mediawiki.org, advisory, wikimania, &tc..) should only be accepted after consultation with the group responsible for the wiki, in case that group wishes to perform mediation themselves.
3. Uninvolved editors should have some forum for comments on the case, but unless involved should avoid commenting on the case pages themselves. At the moment, I'm leaning towards a membership based informal mediation, similar to en:wp:medcab but with specific users "qualified" to perform mediation. In all honesty, I ran across some users attempting mediation on cases there who were clearly not qualified and aggravated the situation.

We're of course discussing all these points, please (PLEASE!) comment on what you'd prefer, why, and start some discussion. :) ~Kylu (u|t) 05:44, 11 April 2008 (UTC)