[WikiEN-l] NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors

[Shmuel Weidberg]

On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:
> They could but they won't; anyone on this list knows that it's been
> tried before. Making admins the "civility police" as some folks like
> to call them is too difficult a nut for the Wikipedia community to
> crack. Either the admins are bad, the rules are bad, or the whole idea
> is bad - many prominent, longtime 'pedians would argue all three are
> true.

We should propose a civility patrol. It would not require anyone to be
an admin and would just give people a heads up that they are being
uncivil. No judgment on the validity of somebody's argument, just on
its degree of civility. Possibly along with a "ticket" describing the
degree of the incivility on a scale of 1 to 10 and maybe a description
of its nature.

-Ezra