Wrap up. Here are the ones that got on there, all for two-year terms: KrakatoaKatie, Callanecc, Opabinia regalis, Worm That Turned, RickinBaltimore, Premeditated Chaos, BU Rob13, Alex Shih.. So who are these people? Do they represent factions? I have heard Drmies described as being a representative...

Long ago when I was in the "Wikipedia can be reformed" camp, I had some ideas about reforming Arbcom to make it more effective. One idea was dividing the 15 arbitrators into groups of three with five arbs each or maybe groups of five with three arbs each. Each group would have their own p...

The trolls and extremists are dancing undisturbed around, and the "management" is biting, kicking and scratching each other, and don't have time for anything else anymore. What is trolling? They need to define this, so everyone has the same idea about trolling. It's a wiki in it's last st...

Personally the arbcom could be dissolved tomorrow and no one would notice and there are only a few things that would need to be done by someone else: - Review of bans could be done a variety of ways. On Wiki, on Meta, via UTRS, etc. On wiki could be problem, since the person would be in violation o...

Okay, I think people don't want to answer this, at least publicly, for a number of reasons, the most likely being it's a complicated subject and they don't know. But I thought it important to ask in a forum like this. I have talked to a lot of people about this, and I don't have the complete answer,...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee_Elections_December_2017/Candidates Voting closed on 21 November (as far as I can tell!) The November date is the cutoff for declaring candidacy. The voting closed Dec 10. You can find whatever election is current at WP:ACE. It usually ta...