[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[Emily Monroe]

> Wikipedia is a project and a community but, above all, it is an  
> encyclopaedia. It is an encyclopaedia that a lot of people find very  
> useful. Our system is working. There is certainly room for  
> improvement, but I don't see this disaster you speak of.

It's not a disaster, unless we neglect the problem and let it become a  
disaster.

Emily
On Aug 11, 2009, at 5:25 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote:

> 2009/8/11 Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net>:
>> on 8/11/09 4:13 PM, George Herbert at george.herbert at gmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> SilkTork has started closing down and summarizing the poll results.
>>>
>>> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility/Poll
>>>
>>> I am still reviewing the statistics and sum total comments, but some
>>> takeaways I already have -
>>>
>>> 0. It's a problem.
>>> 1. We're not enforcing consistently at all, and that's hurting us.
>>> 2. We're BITEing new users.
>>>
>> Is anyone really surprised at this? On this very List people are  
>> constantly
>> bragging about how wonderful Wikipedia is; focusing exclusively on  
>> how big
>> it is. Yet completely ignoring how screwed up the culture is. It's  
>> like a
>> company's media people pushing how good their product is, and how  
>> big their
>> company is, and completely avoiding how poorly their workers are  
>> treated -
>> while those in the executive suite are focused on trying to  
>> persuade people
>> to invest money in them. Arrogance without wisdom is hubris. This  
>> is a
>> formula for disaster.
>
> Wikipedia is a project and a community but, above all, it is an
> encyclopaedia. It is an encyclopaedia that a lot of people find very
> useful. Our system is working. There is certainly room for
> improvement, but I don't see this disaster you speak of.
>
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