Yeah, it seems to me that there's a choice here. Either have a policy with an enforcement strategy and the social support for actually following through with that enforcement strategy in a way that makes situations better rather than more acrimonious, or don't have a written policy and let nature take its course. Developing the former is a lot of work, and it's going to be imperfect. The latter can be more chaotic and will also be imperfect. So there's a choice of costs and benefits.
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On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 2:30 PM, rupert THURNER rupert.thurner@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 13, 2015 10:16 PM, "Oliver Keyes" okeyes@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 13 August 2015 at 16:10, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Le 07/08/2015 02:17, Matthew Flaschen a écrit :
We're in the process of developing a code of conduct for technical spaces. This will be binding, and apply to all Wikimedia-related technical spaces (including but not limited to MediaWiki.org, Phabricator, Gerrit, technical IRC channels, and Etherpad).
Please participate at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Draft .
Suggestions are welcome here or at
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_conduct_for_technical_spaces/Dra...
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Hello Matt,
It seems the code of conduct is fairly similar to the friendly space policy. Though the later was meant for conferences, it can probably be amended to be applied to cyberspace interactions.
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Friendly_space_policy
Do we have any examples of unfriendly behaviour that occurred recently?
The thread you are replying to contains both examples of unfriendly behaviour in a technical context and discussion over the direct applicability of the friendly spaces policy; reviewing it may be a good idea.
Oliver, I must be a little blind but I do not see examples of unfriendly behaviour in this thread.
In general, Matt, I do experience that the wikimedia movement is criticized having too many rules and policies. Add another one does not help. At the end of the day your target group is code contributors, not policy readers. If somebody does not behave and not contribute, the person is easily shut up. If somebody contributes a lot, some diplomacy is required. What you do here is, imho, an example of an organization busy with itself. I won't be angry if you stop this thread and delete the wiki page. Let me add, I really appreciate and find very valuable all the other technical contributions and discussions. And Matt, of course I appreciate that you know what you are talking about beeing software and Wikipedia content contributor.
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