I believe administrators outside of the US, in en wikipedia and in wikidata etc.,
do not understand, our freedom of speech and our right to due process, and
that there is a cultural misunderstanding and a lack of patience on there part,
which leads to an abuse of power and a breaking of the rules when it comes
to blocking IP’s and others for just standing up for themselves. and to that end,
do not see the good faith edits made, that were not reverted, and based on
other’s intelligent level not there's. Everything starts out nice, on tea room’s,
noticeboards, forums, and on there talk pages etc., and then all goes south,
as in en wikipedia, and with a now “conflict of interest” just block you,
to end it.
In wikidata which is more technically challenging, editors that claim ownership
of pages and coming from outside of north America and europe, revert on
misunderstanding’s, and can not express themselves in english, so just rely on
administrators noticeboard to complain against IP’s without warning,
not giving the chance for the ip to defend himself, and to explain that it was
an edit war. administrators that see these posts at 100’s an hour, just block
the IP’s or the pages without any kind of investigation, based on lies of the
accusers. and these same administrators that have participated on
there talk pages are now in a “conflict of interest”, being directly involved.
and in ru wikipedia, ru wikidata, english speakers are not welcome, from
there board down to there users.
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From: Pine W <wiki.pine(a)gmail.com>
To: Wiki Research-l <wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>rg>, Rosie
Stephenson-Goodknight <rosiestep.wiki(a)gmail.com>
Date: Tuesday, September 25, 2018 10:08 PM -05:00
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] Results from 2018 global Wikimedia survey are published!
I'm appreciative that we're having this conversation - not in the sense
that I'm happy with the status quo, but I'm glad that some of us are
continuing to work on our persistent difficulties with contributor
retention, civility, and diversity.
I've spent several hours on ENWP recently, and I've been surprised by the
willingness of people to revert good-faith edits, sometimes with blunt
commentary or with no explanation. I can understand how a newbie who
experienced even one of these incidents would find it to be unpleasant,
intimidating, or discouraging. Based on these experiences, I've decided
that I should coach newbies to avoid taking reversions personally if their
original contributions were in good faith.
I agree with Jonathan Morgan that WP:NOTSOCIAL can be overused.
Kerry, I appreciate your suggestions about about cultural change. I can
think of two ways to influence culture on English Wikipedia in large-scale
ways.
1. I think that there should be more and higher-quality training and
continuing education for administrators in topics like policies, conflict
resolution, communications skills, legal issues, and setting good examples.
I think that these trainings would be one way through which cultural change
could gradually happen over time. For what it's worth, I think that there
are many excellent administrators who do a lot of good work (which can be
tedious and/or stressful) with little appreciation. Also, my impression is
that ENWP Arbcom has become more willing over the years to remove admin
privileges from admins who misuse their tools. I recall having a discussion
awhile back with Rosie on the topic of training for administrators, and I'm
adding her to this email chain as an invitation for her to participate in
this discussion. I think that offering training to administrators could be
helpful in facilitating changes to ENWP culture.
2. I think that I can encourage civil participation in ENWP in the context
of my training project
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Project/Rapid/Pine/Continuation_of_e…
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that I'm hoping that WMF will continue to fund. ENWP is a complex and
sometimes emotionally difficult environment, and I'm trying to set a tone
in the online training materials that is encouraging. I hope to teach
newbies about the goals of Wikipedia as well as policies, how to use tools,
and Wikipedia culture. I am hopeful that the online training materials will
improve the confidence of new contributors, improve the retention of new
contributors, and help new editors to increase the quality and quantity of
their contributions. I hope that early portions of the project will be well
received and that, over time and if the project is successful as it
incrementally increases in scale and reach, that it will influence the
overall culture of ENWP to be more civil.
Regards,
Pine
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https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
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