Oskar Sigvardsson (oskarsigvardsson@gmail.com) [050704 20:44]:
This is a natural consequence of wikipedia, because virtually all discussions on wikipedia are about disputes. You don't put something on a talk-page if you agree with them, and you don't start an RFC either.
Hmm, that's a good point.
The chess championship is a way for users to interact in a way that is not related to disputes.
I do see your point on this. It's why some people complain of an "IRC clique" - i.e., IRC habitues tend to know each other as reasonable folk to chat to, so form a picture of each other as humans rather than nametags on disagreements. In-person wikimeets do this too. Interesting. Do the various Collaboration Of The Week projects have any similar effect? What else does?
- d.