On 05.09.2013 14:05, Anders Wennersten wrote:
It is no magic *yearly reelection of administrators/sysops has meant no bullying types are sysops any more *we are a small community with just a few hundred active. And we have decided to treat everyone (who are serious) as valuable individuals, and go a very long way to make all feeling welcome, stop behaving as overdog/underdog and also to try special solutions for troublesome users that enable them to not being blocked but having restrictions on certain type of activities. Both people who have temporary maniac periods and with autism symptoms can be useful contributers if handled right by the communities.
But these experiences can not be extended to everywhere. en:wp have 20 times the number of contributers then sv:wp and of course this means need of different ways of handling problems. I do not pretend to have anything to teach en:wp, but as said I find nothing useful for sv:wp hearing of the challenges on en:wp
Anders
Actually, the strongest insult I ever felt on a Wikimedia project (I mean not a "fuck you" from a random vandal, and not a "this guy does not understand anything" or "this admin does not know the policies" or "stop POV editing" from a troublesome user, but a real insult from a user in good standing), was in the Swedish Wikipedia in 2010.
This is my personal experience, and I am not trying to generalize. Just wanted to note.
Cheers Yaroslav