RC-patrol seems to have the most biting as far as I can tell. I'd suggest possibly altering the RC top to make a note for the 24 hours or so prior to the week starting asking people not to bite.
Quoting David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Edit_Wikipedia_Week
This is happening.
A perennial press story is "I was bitten as a n00b on Wikipedia" - every random interaction with a random en:wp editor is taken as representative and officially sanctioned.
So we need people to be on extra special good behaviour.
(For those about to point out to Mr Pot that he is of similar blackness to Messrs Kettle, Jimbo emailed me directly asking me to please be much nicer on wikien-l in particular. And I can't say it wasn't deserved. *cough*)
Main sticking point I can see is notoriously prickly individuals who are also notoriously good encyclopedia writers. I won't go so far as to name any of those who spring to my mind, but I'm sure you have your own list. If they can be convinced this is a good idea then they should provide a suitably shocking example of niceness.
Also, have to hit the village pump, the admin boards etc. Those who do lots of janitorial work cleaning out the sewers of en:wp (vandal-chasing, newpages patrolling, RC patrolling, etc) and basically see the bad side of people all the time need to be brought on board as well. This is somewhere n00bs can really be bitten.
Ideas please? I suspect not doing this is not an option.
- d.
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