Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-07 Thread Lars Gardenius
opponents. They put a label on their enemies to make them not human. I think being anonymous works in the same direction. It deprives you of your identity and thus makes you easier to attack. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Yaroslav M. Blanter An: Lars Gard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-07 Thread Lars Gardenius
Thank you for the info. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Lars Gardenius CC: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 10:10 Samstag, 7.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself > Well that is

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
Sorry, not dreaming. I am used to do these sort of things. Part of my daily work. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Lars Gardenius CC: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 0:46 Samstag, 7.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let&#

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
questions seriously. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Lars Gardenius CC: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 23:27 Freitag, 6.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself > As said it was only an

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
Sorry, but I didn't say that everone, but me, is wrong. I said that I believe that you are wrong concerning this question. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Steven Zhang An: Lars Gardenius ; Wikimedia Mailing List CC: Wikimedia Mailing List ; &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
they know. The persons who still attack are often mentally instable and easy to track and report to the police. Regards, lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 23:24 Freitag, 6.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
Well not using your real name if your handling arbitration is I think out of the question, anywhere in the world but the Wikis. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Keegan Peterzell An: Fred Bauder ; Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 20:22 Freitag, 6.September

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
As said it was only an example. And a very small part of my argumentation. You must however understand that the average user has no reason to feel the way you do and he has no possibilty to know who these persons are. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
ained to handle these types of questions. Otherwise you can never protect users from mobbing and abuses. See also my answer to Fred Bauder, I find it unnecessary to repeat here. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Steven Zhang An: "fredb...@fairpoint.net"

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-06 Thread Lars Gardenius
or that is not important. > > The important thing is that the person (or group of persons) has the > responsibility and the power to fulfil its task, i.e. to protect > Wiki-users from abuses and mobbing. Today nobody has neither that > responsibility nor that power. > > regards, &

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
As said that are easily solved in the society as a whole. So it is probably also possible in Wikis. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 20:30 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let&#

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
has neither that responsibility nor that power. regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 18:44 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself And your soluti

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
edias, which I guess are much harder to control by a small group. I have primarily seen this problem in various small Wikis, but I suppose that it exist to a higher or smaller degree across the whole spectrum. Regards, Lars Gardenius ____ Von: geni An: Lars Gard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
an independent arbitrator. This process is handled without difficulties by other organizations. I am involved in work to counteract mobbing on the Internet in general and there are the Wikis today absolutely a part of the problem. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von:

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
This is certainly not a question only for the English Wikipedia. I somewhat doubt that it even foremost has to do with the English Wikipedia. I have seen this problem primarily in smaller Wikis dominated by few people. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
Perhaps you should think again Anders. It certainly also has to do with the Swedish wikis. You just repeated what you wrote earlier. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Anders Wennersten An: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 13:23 Donnerstag, 5.September

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
, children or old folks, women or men. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 18:03 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself Yes, that is pretty muc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
mobbing on the Internet. I don't want the Wikis to be an enclave where this is still allowed. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 16:04 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let'

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
nk you paint an idealistic and rosy picture of the life in the Wikis that many users don't recognize. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Marc A. Pelletier An: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesendet: 18:05 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
to a Wiki, you want somewhere to turn. As said there is no such instance in the Wikis, there is noone responsible how people are treated and mistreated in the Wikis. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Marc A. Pelletier An: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Gesend

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
there have also been such instances where you can turn when an employee/schoolchild has been mobbed. Why would Wiki manage without such an instance? I think you paint a much too rosy picture of the Swedish Wikis, e.g. Swedish Wiktionary. Regards, Lars Gardenius

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
As said I think it is an obvious structural problem of the Wiki organization. I don't think the intention of this thread was to solve a single issue but to point out a general problem. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Wikimedia Mailing

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
I don't agree with Anders Wennersten below. I have certainly seen the same kind of problems in Sweden as well (at least a couple of years back). There are other Swedish Wikis than Wikipedia mind you. The problem is structural so it is shared by all Wikis. Regards, Lars Gard

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
uarreling about the same things and the result is often nil. So I still think there need to be structural change to handle this type of problems. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: "cro0...@gmail.com" An: Lars Gardenius CC: Wikimedia Mailing List ;

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
Sorry, but I have seen several instances where it certainly doesn't work. Not in a way you would expect in a normal society anyhow. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: "cro0...@gmail.com" An: Lars Gardenius ; Wikimedia Mailing List CC: "fr

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
onsibility that normal rules in a society are upheld and with the authority to uphold them. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Peter Gervai An: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 10:50 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's sav

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
and mobbing, and therefore needs an organization that can fulfil these duties. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Josh Lim An: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 6:01 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-05 Thread Lars Gardenius
the users must be put in place. Regards Lars Gardenius Von: Fred Bauder An: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 1:16 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013 Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself It is addressed but by a rather com

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

2013-09-04 Thread Lars Gardenius
I think you are completely right and it is a big problem in the Wiki-world that is not being addressed by anyone in a leading position. Regards, Lars Gardenius Von: Rui Correia An: Wikimedia Mailing List Gesendet: 23:08 Mittwoch, 4.September 2013 Betreff

[Wikimedia-l] Policies to Protect Users from Abuses and Mobbing in the Wikis

2013-06-19 Thread Lars Gardenius
r the Wiki-projects This letter will be distributed to a large number of people within the Wiki-organization as well as to some people outside it. Lars Gardenius Physicist and Entrepreneur Sweden * Example of statement from administrator in German Wiktionary on democracy: Dann werde