On 10/12/2010 05:02, Steve Bennett wrote: > On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:15 PM, David Gerard<dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> http://www.basicprogramming.org/larsent/tendrl/index.php/Tendrl:Differences >> Everyone uses their own real names. > Meh. You lose good editors that way. > >> Potential contributors need to create an account to edit, but don't have to >> provide an autobiography. > Sure, why not? > >> Have only one or two bodies with clearly-defined authority. People have >> common sense: trust them to use it. > That'll scale. > >> Experts are invited to review articles, but they need to contribute as a >> regular editor for some time first. > I'm sure the experts who are already tripping over themselves to write > wikipedia articles will love that. > >> We have a zero-tolerance policy on sniping and offensive remarks. >> Have a culture that looks down upon incivility and poisonousness with a >> sense of humour:>laugh about things. > That's not zero-tolerance. That's the way every project starts. > >> Ensure that (administrators|wardens|whatever we decide to call them) feel no >> qualms about>kicking out clearly disruptive people. > If it was clear to everyone who the disruptive people were, there > would never be any problems. But one person's troll is another > person's misunderstood genius.
Hmm. I've just thought of a generalisation about WP, which I haven't immediately discarded (a freakish circumstance). WP has problems - hoo boy - but they are the problems of success. When they bring out the cake with the ten candles, let's all make a wish: that we continue to have that sort of problem, not the ones the competition has. Charles _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
