[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/8/11 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:
> on 8/11/09 4:13 PM, George Herbert at george.herbert at gmail.com wrote:
>
>> SilkTork has started closing down and summarizing the poll results.
>>
>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility/Poll
>>
>> I am still reviewing the statistics and sum total comments, but some
>> takeaways I already have -
>>
>> 0. It's a problem.
>> 1. We're not enforcing consistently at all, and that's hurting us.
>> 2. We're BITEing new users.
>>
> Is anyone really surprised at this? On this very List people are constantly
> bragging about how wonderful Wikipedia is; focusing exclusively on how big
> it is. Yet completely ignoring how screwed up the culture is. It's like a
> company's media people pushing how good their product is, and how big their
> company is, and completely avoiding how poorly their workers are treated -
> while those in the executive suite are focused on trying to persuade people
> to invest money in them. Arrogance without wisdom is hubris. This is a
> formula for disaster.

Wikipedia is a project and a community but, above all, it is an
encyclopaedia. It is an encyclopaedia that a lot of people find very
useful. Our system is working. There is certainly room for
improvement, but I don't see this disaster you speak of.