On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 2:11 AM, George Herbert <[email protected]>wrote:
> AGF is a good place to start. > > No Personal Attacks is another one, but AGF is more core. > I'd settle for a "social contract" - I think "civility" is too loaded a term in Wikipedia after all the past. If we were going to design such a page, I'd start with the communal need to work together and (given the diversity of users) the need to actively avoid where possible distraction into disputes, and personal squabbles. I'd then add the following as principles (rewording needed to avoid obvious issues): - Wikipedia is a community of diverse individuals. It covers many cultures and norms, and sees in that diversity, a source of immense value to the project. - Dispute resolution is the communally mandated way of resolving all disputes. Because disputes can be volatile, dispute resolution is expected to be actively promoted by all users who wish to engage in a dispute, either by trying to resolve it, or by referring the dispute to a formal resolution venue. - Users have a proactive duty to mitigate disputes or else avoid them. Disputes should be framed around evidenced behaviors and content, and participation in a dispute thread is for the sole purpose of calming the dispute, and addressing the underlying issue. - All participation in a dispute or series of disputes must start from an initial presumption that the other party is trying to comply with a good standard of conduct, unless there is clear evidence that offsets this. Such evidence must be cited, not merely claimed. - Administrators and experienced users have twin roles - to procure good editorial conduct and enforce upon errant users that substandard conduct will not be accepted, and, to do so in a manner that minimizes the dispute so far as possible. Users who cannot or will not do this, should avoid participation in, and comment upon, the dispute. I wouldn't propose it in that form, but if those ideas ended up in a dispute and conduct norm, I would not object. FT2 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
