This idea arose in the context of a discussion which generally addressed civility. The warnings would be civility warnings.
Fred
To that end, a warnings tool would be helpful, supplementing or replacing the uw- templates with a MediaWiki extension that requires that warnings be acknowledged by the editor to continue editing, and providing a record of warnings. This is basically a very soft block that the editor is free to remove themselves. Warnings need not be generally visible except in the case where a matter progresses to arbitration, but they should persist for a period of time so that patterns of behavior become apparent.
-Stephanie
Brilliant!
Fred Bauder
Fred Bauder wrote:
This idea arose in the context of a discussion which generally addressed civility. The warnings would be civility warnings.
To that end, a warnings tool would be helpful, supplementing or replacing the uw- templates with a MediaWiki extension that requires that warnings be acknowledged by the editor to continue editing, and providing a record of warnings. This is basically a very soft block that the editor is free to remove themselves. Warnings need not be generally visible except in the case where a matter progresses to arbitration, but they should persist for a period of time so that patterns of behavior become apparent.
-Stephanie
Brilliant!
Requests for new features should be filed in Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org. This ensures that the ideas don't get lost in mailing list archives and it ensures that eventually these bugs get looked at and (hopefully) implemented by willing developers.
This particular feature request is no small task, but I think the idea definitely has merit.
MZMcBride
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