Yes, fred we must put our time where our mouths are. By watching Wikiquette_alerts and by encouraging use of them. Where's the best newbie forum for that? Going through a variety of essays and putting in a plug also might help... It would be less manageable then - but then if enough people did it and Wikipedia had a reputation of chiding those who go out of their way to be obnoxious, perhaps they would learn something. (I've seen really obnoxious people quit after the most gentle chiding.)
CM
On 6/24/2011 10:35 PM, Fred Bauder wrote:
The below is a reminder of how useful it would be to put more emphasis on letting new editors know that Wikiquette Alerts exist, encouraging them to complain and then encouraging admins to just go to editors who attack others, even with minor snide remarks, and encourage them not to do it. That's the kind of peer pressure that works best. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikiquette_alerts
Even as a very assertive person and a relatively bold editor, it took me almost two years before I started going to such venues for help. Sadly, I didn't often get it. I think it would be the one single thing that could keep women who start editing from stopping. The bad boys might call it "snitching." We should call it empowerment - or maybe, considering the average age of the perpetrators, good parenting! ;-)
It really has to be it's own little wikiproject, or subgroup, or something. I haven't been paying much attention to wikipedia last could months myself so can't remember the various options.
Carol in dc
Yes, I could follow that regularly. It seems manageable.
Fred
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