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"I'll find a day to massacre them all, and raze their '''faction''' and their family..." - William Shakespeare, in Titus Andronicus | "I'll find a day to massacre them all, and raze their '''faction''' and their family..." - William Shakespeare, in Titus Andronicus | ||
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In [[wiki management]], a '''faction''' is a '''mandatory clique''' to deal with [[alleged and collective identity]] problems that can't otherwise be sorted out without serious [[privacy]] problems, e.g. authorizing [[outing]]. The [[Wikipedia Red Faction]] is the most obvious declared public example. | In [[wiki management]], a '''faction''' is a '''mandatory clique''' to deal with [[alleged and collective identity]] problems that can't otherwise be sorted out without serious [[privacy]] problems, e.g. authorizing [[outing]]. The [[Wikipedia Red Faction]] is the most obvious declared public example. | ||
Factions already exist as a group of users sharing a single account or using [[anonymous proxy]] services to reuse [[IP number]]s and appear to be just one persistent [[troll]] or something. This can actually work better for some things than any [[permission-based model]], but it gives an edge to those who have figured out how to do it reliably. It also makes it hard for any limits to be put on such activity. | Factions already exist as a group of users sharing a single account or using [[anonymous proxy]] services to reuse [[IP number]]s and appear to be just one persistent [[troll]] or something. This can actually work better for some things than any [[permission-based model]], but it gives an edge to those who have figured out how to do it reliably. It also makes it hard for any limits to be put on such activity. | ||
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Two factions are currently directly supported by the wiki software itself, those being [[developers]] and [[sysops]]. These have, as a consequence of the software itself, powers to label and identify others as [[vandals]] (those who damage or delete pages or insert erroneous assertions). There are also [[trolls]] (who annoy other users but may be doing so for legitimate political or social reasons, i.e. not simple vandals). ''It is rather hotly contested whether there is any one faction of trolls, whether trolls cooperate in factions already, etc..'' | Two factions are currently directly supported by the wiki software itself, those being [[developers]] and [[sysops]]. These have, as a consequence of the software itself, powers to label and identify others as [[vandals]] (those who damage or delete pages or insert erroneous assertions). There are also [[trolls]] (who annoy other users but may be doing so for legitimate political or social reasons, i.e. not simple vandals). ''It is rather hotly contested whether there is any one faction of trolls, whether trolls cooperate in factions already, etc..'' | ||
One way or another, like it or not, there is reference to these collective entities in all [[large public wiki]]s, and so there should be some formal support for creating arbitrary factions that actually represent the complexity of the social and political situation around the [[GFDL text corpus]] and the many [[point of view]] and [[user role]] differences involved | One way or another, like it or not, there is reference to these collective entities in all [[large public wiki]]s, and so there should be some formal support for creating arbitrary factions that actually represent the complexity of the social and political situation around the [[GFDL text corpus]] and the many [[point of view]] and [[user role]] differences involved. | ||
Three models of dealing with this have been proposed, and one attempted: | Three models of dealing with this have been proposed, and one attempted: |