Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2008-06-30/Taking up the mop

"the community as a whole is beginning to prioritize policymaking and organization experience over simple article-level coordination"

A sad, sad day. - Tbsdy lives (talk) 01:00, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

That's the opinion of the authors, anyway. I think it's more the case that the community is increasingly fractured and now consists of many subcommunities. Article-level coordination is usually only observed by the small number of other editors who work in the same subject area, while policymaking and other meta-work is seen by a large group that participates heavily at RfA. I think most editors would say they do value article-level coordination, it's just that it's easier to evaluate candidates based on areas of common editing experience.--ragesoss (talk) 01:16, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It's interesting anyway, whichever way you look at it. Has there been further discussion of this anywhere? Was a link posted at WT:RFA? Seems not. I've done that now. Carcharoth (talk) 12:26, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]