Do you favor affirmative action? Do you believe it is necessary for employers to fill quotas if they have any hope of diversifying their work force?
As long as left-leaning administrators are recommending left-leaning administrators you will not diversify, unless y'all make a conscious effort to allocate the administrative seats in a more balanced manner.
Do you favor affirmative action? Do you believe it is necessary for employers to fill quotas if they have any hope of diversifying their work force?
-My political beliefs are seperate from my wiki-beliefs, but if you're trully intrested, I will discuss that with you via private discussion.
As long as left-leaning administrators are recommending left-leaning administrators you will not diversify, unless y'all make a conscious effort to allocate the administrative seats in a more balanced manner.
-The day we have a political test for adminship is the day I quit the project. I am a Christian-future pastor, nominated by an athiest, supported by a pair of conservative Muslims, and lots of people I don't know the persuasion of. Oh. And a very strong Catholic. This was a spectacular situation of accident. Adminstrators, while often involved in the nomination project, certainly don't have exclusive ownership. Any registered user my vote and nominate. Several do. The so called "left leaning" bias is silly. As I said, its logistically impossible to control an editorial byline on a project this big, so why would we bother? Wikipedia's adminstrators are formed via universal suffrage of community members, if any bias exist, it is systemic to the vast majority of community members caring about the neutrality, accuracy, and respectiability of the resource. This *could*, and I have not studied it myself, lead to a similar bias in Academia, which tends to elevate classic philsophical stuff such as Hobbes, Locke, Rawles.
This is not a senate. There are not a limited number of seats. We're not gonna "balance" because we don't ask. If we start a witchhunt based on political idealogy, people suddenly will either:
1. Hide their political idealogy
2. Advertise it in an effort to gain points
Neither of which help create an atmosphere dedicated to neutral accurate information.
99% of the articles on an encylopedia have only minor brushes with politics. I'm not going to sacrifice those 99 to have the appearance of american styled liberal-conservative balance for the 1.
So, if it was up to me, it would never, ever, EVER, come to a political test. If you're serious, go ahead and ask Jimbo, but I think the majority of the project, whatever their political stripe, will feel the same.