on 2/23/07 12:26 PM, Ray Saintonge at saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Until we can find a way to deal seriously and severely with the behaviours that Parker mentioned we cannot hope to build the collaborative community that most of us profess to support. Those of us who have invested serious amounts of time in these projects, and have thought deeply about its underlying principles despair just as much over the actions of the petty tyrants as over the actions of the vandals.
Ray,
There are ways to solve the problems you present to. Companies and other organizations are recognizing, confronting and dealing with them every day.
But, in the context of Wikipedia, this is a tough one. You and I and others in this Community can identify the problems, commiserate, gnash our teeth, and go through countless other fruitless gyrations. But without the power to make change nothing can or will. Unless change is recognized as needed - and mandated - by those with the ability to do so nothing can happen. We need leadership (with teeth).
Marc Riddell