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Wikipedia is largely an on-line community, and some editors prefer their activities to remain entirely on-line. However, other Wikipedians engage in off-line, real world Wikipedia activities, such as Wikimeets, outreach work, or training. How much are you currently involved in these off-line activities, and would this be different if you were or were not on the Arbitration Committee? [[User:Bazonka|Bazonka]] ([[User talk:Bazonka|talk]]) 23:35, 27 November 2012 (UTC)
:'''A''': I've mentioned this in a few places already, in my candidate statement, and in answers to some of the questions above. Some of the Wikipedians I've met are listed [[User:Carcharoth/Additional notes|here]]. That ranges from people I have met only briefly at meetups or drinks or dinners when someone is in town, to those I have talked with at length about various matters. As I state there, I've not yet managed to make it to a Wikimania event, but I may do that one year. That page in my userspace also mentions some of the meetups I've attended, which have all been in the UK, in London or Cambridge. Some of the outreach or training work (sometimes little more than an editathon, sometimes something more organised) is also mentioned there. This may sound like a lot, but it is spread out over around 2-3 years and I would estimate I manage to get to such events or meetups around 3-4 times a year on average. I would like to do more of that, but if elected to ArbCom there would probably not be time to do more than attend the occasional event as I do now (some of the early meet-ups I attended were during my time as an arbitrator in the period from 2009 and 2010). If I was not elected, I may well try and do more along these lines. Meeting other Wikipedians gives a different perspective on things, and doing volunteer outreach work can be very rewarding. [[User:Carcharoth|Carcharoth]] ([[User talk:Carcharoth|talk]]) 00:44, 28 November 2012 (UTC)
====Question from [[User:Begoon|Begoon]]====
I posted most of this to the discussion on the failed motion to "suspend" Elen, and if you find it phrased oddly as a question, that's why - the page was archived almost immediately afterwards. It occurs to me that maybe some voters might be interested in candidates' reactions to a question like this, so I'm asking it of each of you. It's a very open question, so feel free to ignore it or to comment on it in any way at all.
Is it an arbitration body we want? Do you think that's what we have? It doesn't seem to arbitrate at all, most of the time, it sits in judgement and hands down sanctions from on high. That's not the same thing at all. Do you think, instead, we've ended up with GOVCOM, complete with all the lovely political trimmings that brings along. If you think that's true - how did we get here, and is this where we want to be?
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