[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[Emily Monroe]

> Well, here's an odd thought. If Wikipedia dies, something to do with  
> our community will probably be the reason.

I agree with you. Unfortunately, I think this is the case. What will  
happen if the in fighting continues?

Emily
On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Andrew Gray wrote:

> 2009/8/11 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/8/11 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:
>>> Thank you, Thomas, you just made my point. This is exactly the  
>>> type of focus
>>> and denial I was speaking of.
>>
>> I'm not denying we have a problem with civility. I got desysopped for
>> a civility block the community and ArbCom objected to. What I'm
>> denying is that this problem is going to lead it disaster. There is
>> absolutely no evidence of that.
>
> Well, here's an odd thought. If Wikipedia dies, something to do with
> our community will probably be the reason.
>
> Everything else, we seem to have escaped. We're mostly out of the
> funding trap; we're not going to have to go offline for lack of money
> unless the Foundation *really* drop the ball. We've avoided being
> sucked into any horribly fatal lawsuits, and it looks like we've
> positioned ourselves to keep doing so. There aren't any obvious
> looming technical problems, or catastrophic holes in the IP model we
> rely on. Barring a freak accident losing the datacenter and a few
> months undumped work, Wikipedia has reached the stage where it isn't
> going to vanish one night due to something unfortunate.
>
> But this, this could do it. A breakdown in civility is a breakdown of
> community; a sufficiently comprehensive breakdown of the community
> will destroy the project, simply because it's now too big to be
> maintainable without that large and active community. That's not to
> say this will happen, of course; I don't think it will. But it's not
> implausible, to imagine us wasting away under a gradual growth of
> people who just don't want to play nice and don't see any benefit in
> it.
>
> Like I say, I wish we had an effective way of solving it. We can't
> direct one centrally, that's for sure.
>
> -- 
> - Andrew Gray
>  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk
>
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