Please be sure to keep us, or just wiki-research-l maybe, notified too. :-)
On 10/2/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 10/1/07 4:34 PM, Debbie Garside at debbie(a)ictmarketing.co.uk wrote:
>
>
>> OK... Forget the question :-) I just realised there were another 30
emails
>> above the one I responded to ;-)
>>
>>
> Thank you for responding, Debbie. What I am interested in, generally,
is the
> state of online collaboration and community
building; and I am
particularly
> wanting to study interpersonal dynamics,
conflict resolution and
identity
> within the Foundation's projects. In
other words, I would like to take
a
> Project's emotional temperature.
>
> In the English Wikipedia, for example, there are those on the Mailing
List
> who say, we're fine, the culture's
fine - don't mess with it.
>
> However, there are also enough posts from persons who say they are
feeling
> abused, ignored, and not being treated fairly
in the Project. And, when
> these persons do post, they are usually portrayed as whiners,
malcontents,
> and as persons who "need to get with the
program".
>
> In short, people simply don't seem to know how to talk with each other
> without being extremely defensive, or grossly offensive. This severely
> inhibits and degrades the quality of collaboration.
>
> I have some ideas on how to improve some of this, but first I would
like to
> conduct an honest, objective survey to see if
this is simply my
imagination,
> or is actually a true picture of the state of
things.
>
> My field is Clinical Psychology. I could assist in analyzing such a
survey,
> but I am not schooled or experienced in
actually creating one.
>
> My thoughts are to present the findings to the Foundation itself. There
is
> plenty of time to work within here. I would
like to do this right. I
welcome
your
input.
Marc Riddell
on 10/2/07 9:58 AM, Sue Gardner at sgardner(a)wikimedia.org wrote:
Mark, I would just like to add my strong support of this notion. I am
very interested in seeing a survey done of both of the contributors and
the readers. I don't think we have the internal capacity at the office
to start really thinking about this until (I am guessing) the spring.
But setting aside capacity issues, I completely agree that your premise
is worth exploring.
If you manage to make any progress, I would be very pleased to see the
results. And if I make progress first, I will get you involved :-)
Great, Sue, thank you for your support. I will most certainly keep you
informed of the progress. It should be an enlightening adventure.
Marc
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