[Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself

[Lars Gardenius]

I don't believe you are rightly informed there. You are of course right that there are many arenas where mobbing is frequent, like blogs and Facebook etc.

But to believe that the Wikis are a rosy exception in that context is to be very naive or very ill informed.

I don't exactly understand what you mean by "Wikipedia's extreme size". First of all I don't only mean Wikipedia but all Wikis handled by Wikimedia. In this context Wikis can be very small, dominated and controlled by a very small number of people, or it can be huge like some of the big Wikipedias, which I guess are much harder to control by a small group.

I have primarily seen this problem in various small Wikis, but I suppose that it exist to a higher or smaller degree across the whole spectrum.

Regards,
Lars Gardenius




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 Von: geni <geniice at gmail.com>
An: Lars Gardenius <lars.gardenius at yahoo.de>; Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
Gesendet: 20:37 Donnerstag, 5.September 2013
Betreff: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Please, let's save the Wikipedia - from itself
 







On 5 September 2013 18:50, Lars Gardenius <lars.gardenius at yahoo.de> wrote:


>I am involved in work to counteract mobbing on the Internet in general and there are the Wikis today absolutely a part of the problem.
>

Not remotely. Wikipedia's extreme size and heterogeneous nature make it an extremely poor place for ah "mobs" to form and sustain themselves. Places the reddit, free republic, DU and facebook are fair better environments for mobs and if you were actualy working on the  counteract mobbing on the Internet you would know this. 
 


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geni