> On 31/01/2011 06:43, George Herbert wrote: >> Good interviews with Sue, Kat, others... >> >> http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/business/media/31link.html?hpw
on 1/31/11 7:30 AM, Charles Matthews at [email protected] wrote: >> > As an advocate of keeping "user friendliness" and "friendliness" issues > separate in discussing enWP, I don't agree with you here, Charles. The tone of interaction, including "friendliness", should be appropriate for any interactive forum related to the Project. That is how the tone of a culture is established, encouraged and maintained. >I'd like to note that the "gender gap" is basically a friendliness issue. You are right here if you mean that, in a male-dominated culture, "friendliness" implies weakness. >It is all very well setting targets, but > unless interactions become more polite and helpful on the site, it is > hard to see how they are to be achieved. Agreed! >I'm not convinced that the > community generally get it about this point. If "more polite and helpful" interactions are a desired goal for the Project, how to you propose we help the larger Community to "get it"? Marc _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
