[WikiEN-l] Resolving conflicts and reaching consensus

[David Gerard]

On 13 April 2010 23:06, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

> But the opposite approach is as bad or worse:  If every issue must be
> argued anew when someone brings it up then the ultimate outcome is
> that by sheer pigheaded persistence you will eventually get your way
> once everyone saner has tired or repeating the same argument, — or
> even ignoring a single persistence force — that we'll always
> eventually conduct things according to the initial impressions of a
> typical uninformed person (because, again, the informed people will
> drop out).


What you have described is what many describe as the problem with
editing Wikipedia.

(It tends to correct itself after a few years, or two generations of users.)


- d.