Ha! Good luck trying to get Wikipedians to hold hands...distance is definitely a problem
On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > Getting serious again, perhaps something that could be discussed as a part > of the community health initiative is how to help people to argue > constructively and civilly. I'm reminded a bit of a story I heard about a > married couple who had an agreement that they would argue only when holding > hands. Apparently they worked out situations between them better that way. > Are there ways that we could encourage better methods of handling disputes > on wiki that we have yet to try, or that we are trying but could scale up? > > On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I think we should have arguments about whether we are allowed to have >> arguments. ;) >> >> On Sun, Oct 18, 2015 at 11:29 PM, Gerard Meijssen < >> gerard.meijs...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hoi, >>> Such approaches ass-ume that we know best and promptly forget that the >>> world changes and that this attitude prevents "us" from arguing, poking at >>> the holy cows. >>> >>> What if BIG contributors and Jane or me tell you that you are wrong? >>> Would you listen do you listen?? Yes we have our arguments ready! >>> Thanks, >>> GerardM >>> >>> On 19 October 2015 at 07:13, Jane Darnell <jane...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Most interesting slide from that deck is this one: >>>> >>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:WikiConference_USA_-_Community_Health.pdf&page=20 >>>> >>>> I would say as a Wikipedian, I am firmly a member of the top bar there: >>>> COI (love to edit Haarlem articles b/c I live there), Disruptive editing >>>> (accused of this b/c I love other projects that most Wikipedians don't >>>> edit, like Commons and Wikidata), Gaming the system (I love games, such as >>>> publicizing things on Wikipedia to see if it makes a difference, and over >>>> time it generally does), Difficult users (I think all Wikipedians are >>>> entrepreneurs in the sense that they work alone and don't take no for an >>>> answer, like me) >>>> >>>> If you want to work on removing Wikipedians in that bar, please be >>>> aware you're talking about me. And if you send a coach to fix me, then I >>>> will soon be moving into the orange and red zones! >>>> >>>> On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 3:52 AM, Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Forwarding this interesting presentation's slide deck from Haitham. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:WikiConference_USA_-_Community_Health.pdf >>>>> >>>>> Pine >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wiki-research-l mailing list >>> Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l > >
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