On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 5:06 PM, wiki doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
- the qualities one needs to get anything done in Wikipedia are generally,
tenacity and bullheadedness. Drawing enough attention to the issue and breaking through the natural apathy and inertia of the wider community is also essential (and that, frankly, often involved strategic drama-stirring and a willingness to battle vested-interests).
I think that is a short-sighted view.
You may get something done in the short term, but you end up not building in infrastructure and culture for the future. Quick fixes to problems don't scale. You need long-term, sustainable systems that work. A bullheaded quick fix might look good, but a few years later you find that the problem has come back and got worse.
I would focus on:
WP:CHRONIC INCIVILITY (as a subset of WP:RFC/U) WP:LONG-TERM (to pull together long-term issues and see them through)
Carcharoth