David Karger wrote: > On the advice of one wikipedia admin I've already recruited, I'm > emailing this list to seek a few others to help me with a research > experiment I'm hoping to undertake. Basically, I'm interested in > trying to graft Wikipedia's highly effective consensus-editing model > onto some currently-jammed political discourse.
(snip) Interesting. I think that what admins you get may be important; particularly with regard to seeing all problems as nails that can be handled by quick ban. I don't have any numbers on that, but it is my hypothesis that as Wikipedia community aged, the number of ban-happy admins has increased, and that is one of the factors adversely affecting community health in general (by banning and discouraging editors who could've otherwise been mentored into productive editors). You may want to prescreen your admin volunteers by asking them how do they intend to deal with potential trouble, and what kind of remedies they use when they are imposing sanctions. -- Piotr Konieczny "To be defeated and not submit, is victory; to be victorious and rest on one's laurels, is defeat." --Józef Pilsudski _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
