It has resurfaced here in
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2014/12/14/comment-will-editing-disputes-mean-end-wikipedia
Nothing to do with me, I should add.
Kerry
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commentary on Wikipedia's community behaviour (Aaron gets a quote)
I think area of focus is
likely to be a big factor. There's a stereotype, for example, of new page
patrollers as particularly uncaring and harried: when we surveyed patrollers,
and compared the results to the surveys of the overall editing population, we
found that the major demographic difference or difference in priorities is
simply that new page patrollers patrol new pages. So where people choose to
work definitely plays a part. And, anecdotally, there are some areas that just
attract combative individuals and so become less-pleasant for those who (quite
rightly) don't want to tolerate that - articles around Israel/Palestine, for
example, or the Balkans.
At the end of the day, though, it's the people who make the
environments unpleasant just as much as it is the environments altering the
people.
On 15 December 2014 at 23:28, mjn <mjn@anadrome.org> wrote:
Perhaps it depends on what part of the encyclopedia? Has anyone
attempted to characterize how the editing environment varies with
different subject matter? I often run across descriptions that don't
comport with either my experience, or that of people I've interviewed,
but it's hard to tell precisely why. I've encountered quite different
beliefs about what the en.wikipedia community is like, even among people
who to me seem to otherwise have a similar background.
Entirely anecdotally, areas of interest seem to be one correlated
factor. For example, writing an article on an archaeological site (one
thing I've mentored new editors in doing) is by and large trouble-free
and friendly, in my experience. But some other areas are not. I haven't
attempted to characterize that factor in any detail.
-Mark
WereSpielChequers <werespielchequers@gmail.com>
writes:
> We have problems, I don't dispute that. But "ugly and bitter as
4chan"? That has to be an exaggeration.
>
> Regards
>
> Jonathan Cardy
>
>
>> On 13 Dec 2014, at 01:03, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I certainly hope you're right
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Sydney Poore <sydney.poore@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I think feminists, especially those who take an interest in STEM,
will pass this article around.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Dec 12, 2014 5:35 PM, "Andrew Lih" <andrew.lih@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> It's a good piece, but honestly I think only the dedicated
tech reader will make it through the entire story. There's a lot of jargon and
insider intrigue such that I could imagine most people never making past the
typewriter barf of "BLP, AGF, NOR" :)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 5:26 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj@alk.edu.pl> wrote:
>>>>> While I agree that the article is overly negative (likely
because of the individual experience), I think it still points to an important
problem. I don't perceive this article as really problematic in terms of image.
Maybe naively, I imagine that people will not stop donating because the
community is not ideal.
>>>>>
>>>>> pundit
>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 11:16 PM, Kerry Raymond <kerry.raymond@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> There’s a saying that everyone likes to eat sausages
but nobody likes to know how they are made. It is not good to have
negative publicity like that during the annual donation campaign (irrespective
of the motivations of the journalist and/or the rights/wrongs of the issue
being reported, neither of which I intend to debate here). As a donation-funded
organisation, public perception matters a lot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Kerry
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> From: Jonathan Morgan [mailto:jmorgan@wikimedia.org]
>>>>>> Sent: Saturday, 13 December 2014 6:43 AM
>>>>>> To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities
>>>>>> Cc: Kerry Raymond
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] commentary on
Wikipedia's community behaviour (Aaron gets a quote)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I mostly agree. On one hand, it's always nice to see a
detailed description of how wiki-sausage gets made in a major venue. On the
other, this journalist clearly has a personal axe to grind, and used his bully
pulpit to grind it in public.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> - J
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1000th addition to the inconsequential rant genre.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Nemo
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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>>>>> __________________________
>>>>> prof. dr hab. Dariusz Jemielniak
>>>>> kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego
>>>>> i centrum badawczego CROW
>>>>> Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
>>>>> http://www.crow.alk.edu.pl
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>>>>> członek Komitetu Polityki Naukowej MNiSW
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"Common Knowledge? An Ethnography of Wikipedia" (2014, Stanford
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>>>>>
>>>>> Recenzje
>>>>> Forbes: http://www.forbes.com/fdc/welcome_mjx.shtml
>>>>> Pacific Standard: http://www.psmag.com/navigation/books-and-culture/killed-wikipedia-93777/
>>>>> Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/read/an-ethnography-of-wikipedia
>>>>> The Wikipedian: http://thewikipedian.net/2014/10/10/dariusz-jemielniak-common-knowledge
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