[WikiEN-l] collective or collaborative areas of Wikipedia

[Emily Monroe]

> At one extreme reviewing at [[wp:FAC]] is very interactive and in my  
> experience usually very collegial.
>
> At the other extreme, when I'm feeling less sociable I find I can  
> while away hours eradicating preforming from the entertainment  
> industry or removing a surplus s to merge the Olympic sports of  
> synchronised ventriloquism and discus throwing.
>
> Somewhere in between is newpage patrol, most new articles are  
> written by newbies who haven't mastered categorisation and wiki  
> format. If you install hotcat and try to categorise new articles  
> you'll soon find yourself collaborating with lots of editors.

	True, true. It would makes sense that different parts of the  
wikipedia need to have different levels of discussion.

	What about wikiprojects? Are they very "collaborative", or do they  
serve only as assessment graders?

Emily
On Jun 19, 2009, at 12:10 PM, Dahsun wrote:

>
> Thinking on Emily's point about social interaction on wikipedia, I'm  
> well aware that the amount of interaction that I have with other  
> editors varies dramatically depending on the areas of the Wiki that  
> I spend time in.
>
> At one extreme reviewing at [[wp:FAC]] is very interactive and in my  
> experience usually very collegial.
>
> At the other extreme, when I'm feeling less sociable I find I can  
> while away hours eradicating preforming from the entertainment  
> industry or removing a surplus s to merge the Olympic sports of  
> synchronised ventriloquism and discus throwing.
>
> Somewhere in between is newpage patrol, most new articles are  
> written by newbies who haven't mastered categorisation and wiki  
> format. If you install hotcat and try to categorise new articles  
> you'll soon find yourself collaborating with lots of editors.
>
> WereSpielChequers
>
>
>> Message: 7
>> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:41:38 -0700
>> From: stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com>
>> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Social ideas (was Hi there)
>> To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
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>>> Stevertigo wrote:
>>>
>>> But do I understand correctly, Emily, that
>>>> by "social aspects" you mean more what we might
>> call "community," or
>>>> "collective," or perhaps "synergetic" aspects?
>>> Emily Monroe <bluecaliocean at me.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Yes, that's what I mean!
>>>
>> I'll be interested to see where this discussion goes.
>>>
>>
>> (Because we've gotten our hellos out of the way, I've
>> retitled the thread)
>>
>> It generally "goes" nowhere here unless you seed it with a
>> question or idea.
>> If your stated interest can be translated into a question,
>> it might go
>> something like:
>>   What socially-oriented ideas might make
>> Wikipedia better?
>>
>> Though you may not yet understand the intricacies, it still
>> would not be out
>> of place for you to suggest some ideas yourself. Especially
>> when you want to
>> start a new conversation. In threads like this, we can deal
>> with a few
>> different things at once, and who knows what might come
>> up?
>>
>> I myself am wondering if anyone has seen any userboxes made
>> into
>> bumperstickers.
>>
>> -Steven
>>
>>
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