> On 3/15/11 9:34 AM, Nicole Willson wrote: >> Lastly, I had a question about Fred's statement about rules. If >> following rules isn't that important in the beginning, how come I have >> only gotten feedback once about what I've done wrong with date >> formatting and never gotten a message about what I've done right on >> Wikipedia? I've made at least 150 edits, so one of them must have been >> good, right? Instead I get a message about date formatting (which >> someone else could probably fix easily) and told to look at the MoS >> (which assumes that I know that it stands for Manual of Style). It >> seems to me that there may be a disconnect here. > > Yes, there is definitely a disconnect. I proposed adding some positive > user feedback templates to the widely-used Twinkle gadget a while back, > but was shot down due to concerns that it would be "abused"(?!). So > instead, I created a new "WikiLove" user script and have proposed it as > a new gadget. This script makes it just as easy to add barnstars, > cookies, kittens, cupcakes, etc. to user talk pages as it is to add > warning templates via Twinkle. The response to my proposal was baffling: > "doesn't seem to have any practical purpose", "I don't think most people > would be pleased to see an increase in barnstar-giving", "the current > level of barnstar-giving is sufficient". Apparently the community puts > little to no values in positive user feedback. This is probably a > symptom of the Eternal September effect mentioned by Sue in the March > Update. I think the culture can change, but it's going to take a > sustained and concerted effort. > > Kaldari
Obviously a gendered response... Perhaps a backslapping or high-fiving bot... Fred _______________________________________________ Gendergap mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/gendergap
