Wiki Management

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Wiki Management may require Wiki Editor and Wiki Lawyer to guide Wiki Sysop behaviour. Left on their own they tend to be little tin gods - each hoping to grow up to be GodKing. This shouldn't be encouraged.

Good sysops are disposable, period. Good editors are not. And good lawyers can keep your project going when it otherwise would be flushed down the toilet.

Wiki management problems include:

knowing when written consensus is possible, e.g. using troll bridge approach, and when it's just going to continue as edit war forever no matter what, i.e. it is a Consumerium:political dispute or something that reflects a real world POV difference.

knowing when soft security can't apply, e.g. definition of Consumerium:vandalism.

balancing Consumerium:contributor vs. Consumerium:editor balances of power.

picking wiki software that actually makes it easy to do the above.