thanks for the advice. i'll try to explore this with the volunteers. I take it that you aren't interested in participating yourself.
On 3/25/2011 1:06 PM, Piotr Konieczny wrote: > 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. > _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
