[WikiEN-l] drama and incivility

[Christiano Moreschi]

>From: Aude <audevivere at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
>Subject: [WikiEN-l] drama and incivility
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:06:39 -0400
>
>Some messages that come through this mailing list, such as the recent NY
>Times article on BLP issues, are good to receive.  I like being informed
>about such matters relevant to Wikipedia.  Others like all "Go away, you
>trolling fuckwit." have no place on the mailing list.   Am I the only one
>here annoyed with such messages?  Why can't we be more cordial and polite
>towards one another?  It's gotten to the point where I may unsubscribe.
>
>The drama here, along with AN/I and other places is souring my opinion 
>about
>contributing to Wikipedia.  Why bother anymore?  I still like the ideals
>behind the project and wish to continue, but would really like it if we can
>please tone down the drama and be more civil and cordial towards one
>another?  If people can't control themselves, then maybe this list could 
>use
>moderation.  Though if the moderator is engaging such language, that's not
>good.
>
>--
>Aude

You'll never get rid of enwiki drama, certainly not on enwiki mailing lists.

Simple reason? Most people don't have anything to write any more, so they 
start fighting instead. Seeing [[Africa]] as a redlink and writing "Africa 
is a continent" is fun, but that doesn't happen anymore (and "Africa is a 
big continent" is no longer an FA). So, people turn to drama as an 
alternative, because conflict is fun as well. A shame, but in this respect 
enwiki has become the victim of its own succcess. Antandrus talks about this 
better than I can.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antandrus/observations_on_Wikipedia_behavior

Particularly numbers 19 and 20.

C More schi

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