thanks for the advice. i'll try to explore this with the volunteers. I
take it that you aren't interested in participating yourself.
On 3/25/2011 1:06 PM, Piotr Konieczny wrote:
David Karger wrote:
On the advice of one wikipedia admin I've
already recruited, I'm
emailing this list to seek a few others to help me with a research
experiment I'm hoping to undertake. Basically, I'm interested in
trying to graft Wikipedia's highly effective consensus-editing model
onto some currently-jammed political discourse.
(snip)
Interesting. I think that what admins you get may be important;
particularly with regard to seeing all problems as nails that can be
handled by quick ban. I don't have any numbers on that, but it is my
hypothesis that as Wikipedia community aged, the number of ban-happy
admins has increased, and that is one of the factors adversely affecting
community health in general (by banning and discouraging editors who
could've otherwise been mentored into productive editors).
You may want to prescreen your admin volunteers by asking them how do
they intend to deal with potential trouble, and what kind of remedies
they use when they are imposing sanctions.