That seems a really cool presentation Romaine! Thanks for sharing in this thread. Unfortunately I won't be able to attend Wikimedia this year, but I hope to see the video from this presentation and the discussions about it later! :)
Hugs, Tom 2014-05-16 14:13 GMT-03:00 Romaine Wiki <romaine_w...@yahoo.com>: > Hello all, > > I had a discussion with Fabrice about how a culture of Kindness and > Fabrice also made a submission for Wikimania about it: > https://wikimania2014.wikimedia.org/wiki/Submissions/A_Culture_of_Kindness > > In the past years I notice very much how easy discussions can go in the > wrong direction as all the facial expressions and intonation are lost when > users write a message on a talk page. Many many times this goes wrong, and > users have a different interpretation of what someone else said what causes > a fight on the wiki. If users are smart they find out that in fact the > difference between them is very small with (usually) only a very slight > difference in focus, but in general they agree with each other, but they > don't realize that on the moment of the discussion. (If users with good > will aren't that smart to discover that, such can grow out to a fighting > situation for many years.) If I estimate I would say at least 50% of all > troubled discussions are causes by miscommunication as the result of words > being read differently as result of missing facial expressions and > intonation what most people are used to have in the communication with > people around them. > > If certain users are deaf, autistic or dyslectic, or have such background, > this is even worsened. > > For some years I say that if I can follow a training to improve textual > communication to better understand how things are perceived, I really like > to follow such training. As I don't know of any, I started to figure out > and collect what communication mistakes are made what cause troubles > between users with the intention of creating a guide for users, to let them > understand why some communication gives worse results. > > Romaine > > -- > Everton Zanella Alvarenga (also Tom) > Open Knowledge Brasil - Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre > http://br.okfn.org > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
