On 31/01/2011 06:43, George Herbert wrote:
Good interviews with Sue, Kat, others...
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?hpw
on 1/31/11 7:30 AM, Charles Matthews at charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
As an advocate of keeping "user friendliness" and "friendliness" issues separate in discussing enWP,
I don't agree with you here, Charles. The tone of interaction, including "friendliness", should be appropriate for any interactive forum related to the Project. That is how the tone of a culture is established, encouraged and maintained.
I'd like to note that the "gender gap" is basically a friendliness issue.
You are right here if you mean that, in a male-dominated culture, "friendliness" implies weakness.
It is all very well setting targets, but unless interactions become more polite and helpful on the site, it is hard to see how they are to be achieved.
Agreed!
I'm not convinced that the community generally get it about this point.
If "more polite and helpful" interactions are a desired goal for the Project, how to you propose we help the larger Community to "get it"?
Marc