On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:36 AM, Andre Engels <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 7:32 AM, Lars Aronsson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > We could go further: People complain about uncivilized admins,
> > scaring newcomers away.  But the fundraiser doesn't pay for
> > keeping Wikipedia civilized.  Perhaps it should, and that could
> > need an annual budget of $60 million rather than $6 million, a
> > staff of 200 rather than 20.
>
> That nothing is done about incivility (unfortunately - I really
> believe it is chasing some good contributors away), is not because of
> financial issues, but because nobody really has an idea _what_ to do
> about it.
>
>
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> AndrĂ© Engels, [email protected]
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No, people have come up with ideas to try and deal with it. See
enwiki's massive dispute resolution process. They just haven't
found a way to successfully deal with it. In any case, this is veering
off topic for this list.

-Chad
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