Wikipedia:Arbitration Committee Elections December 2023/Candidates/Wugapodes/Statement

Wugapodes

Hello, I'm Wugapodes, and am seeking a second term as a member of the arbitration committee. Rather than repeat my 2021 nomination statement I want to use this space to lay out some projects I hope to accomplish should I receive another term.

1. Email is a major part of the Committee's work, but handling poorly formatted block appeals or inappropriately addressed correspondence is time not spent on the merits of issues. To streamline our workflow, I had been working to set up the contact page extension to provide more detailed contact forms than the EmailUser interface allows. Due to committee business and personal obligations in the last few months, development stalled so I hope to pick it back up in the coming term.
2. The (re-)establishment of a subcommittee to handle ban and block appeals. There is often one or two arbs who carry the burden of wrangling arbitrators for appeals, and even then the committee has made increased use of "downgrade" votes which punts the work to the community. Feedback on this point from other arbitrators has cautioned against a repeat of the ill-fated ban appeals sub-committee. With that in mind, I imagine a subcommittee with set membership chaired by the handful of arbs who coordinate our appeals work, and comprising community members appointed to vote on appeals received by the committee. This increases community participation, relieves some of the workload from the committee through delegation, and hopefully leads to more a more streamlined process.
3. A personal goal: I want to preserve some time for content writing. I originally did not intend to stand for re-election because the workload kept me from other kinds of contributions that I enjoyed. One of my goals if elected is to strike a better balance between my Committee work and the kinds of work I wrote about in my 2021 nomination statement. I've recently been eyeing up the Low Back Merger Shift article which recently changed scope and finally getting Phonetics through GA or FA.

I'm over 18. I have signed the NDA. See my list of other accounts.

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