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'''Wiki governance''' seems to pass through a few stages in a [[large public wiki]]: | '''Wiki governance''' seems to pass through a few stages in a [[large public wiki]]: | ||
1. chaos as basic [[wiki management]] problems slowly become understood | 1. chaos as basic [[wiki management]] problems slowly become understood | ||
2. fascism as a [[sysop power structure]] and perhaps [[GodKing]] take root - some [[sysop vigilantiism]] mostly dealt with informally; some malcontents but mostly tolerated | 2. fascism as a [[sysop power structure]] and perhaps [[GodKing]] take root - some [[sysop vigilantiism]] mostly dealt with informally; some malcontents but mostly tolerated, some [[wiki witchhunt]]s as [[vandalism]] becomes more common | ||
3. stagnation based on worship of the [[GodKing]] | 3. stagnation based on worship of the [[GodKing]] by a [[priestly hierarchy]] who have no rational understanding of [[why wiki works]]; [[usurper]]s have managed to get close to the GodKing personally, and use his approval as a mask to push their own agendas - labelling everyone who asks for change a [[troll]] and abusing powers granted to deal with vandals, against such trolls; [[sysop vandalism]] occurs as sysops put their own beliefs above the truth - [[echo chamber]] begins, and [[systemic bias]] is no longer avoided, but *enforced*. | ||
4. [[trolls]] realize that [[regime change]] is necessary and form [[faction]]s, e.g. [[Wikipedia Red Faction]], and start to develop appropriate rhetoric to justify [[trolling]], and target bad sysops to be [[driven off by trolls]] etc.; sysops begin to justify [[ontological distinction]] using [[operational distinction]], e.g. "that person was blocked thus they must not be saying any thing of value" - all dialogue becomes impossible, and [[echo chamber]] becomes basis of [[harassment]] | 4. [[trolls]] realize that [[regime change]] is necessary and form [[faction]]s, e.g. [[Wikipedia Red Faction]], and start to develop appropriate rhetoric to justify [[trolling]], and target bad sysops to be [[driven off by trolls]] etc.; sysops begin to justify [[ontological distinction]] using [[operational distinction]], e.g. "that person was blocked thus they must not be saying any thing of value" - all dialogue becomes impossible, and [[echo chamber]] becomes a [[libel pit]] and then the basis of [[harassment]]; | ||
5. war breaks out on interwiki level | 5. [[troll war]] breaks out on [[interwiki]] level, confused by lack of any [[interwiki identity standard]] resulting in [[outing]] and [[framing]]. Some desperate sysops use technical means to conceal the truth, including [[denial of service attack]] by [[vandalbot]] on [[troll-friendly]] wikis (illegal) and (legal) [[IP range block]]s by sysops who control the technology - [[developer vigilantiism]]! Also state violence is initiated by the most pathetic [[usurper]]s: [[false crime report]]s, [[false claims of terrorism]] | ||
6. beginnings of peace talks as everyone begins to realize [[trolls]] are more right than wrong; [[board]] activity, formation of formal mechanisms, e.g. [[Wikimedia]] | 6. beginnings of peace talks as everyone begins to realize [[trolls]] are more right than wrong, and that following [[usurper]]s and reactionaries is going to kill all cooperation with the project; some shallow [[board]] activity, formation of formal mechanisms, e.g. [[Wikimedia]] [[arbitration]], etc. | ||
7. rejection of these bourgeois false democracy elements by revolutionary troll factions, and continuation of the struggle to [[anarchize]] or to democratize | 7. rejection of these bourgeois false democracy elements by revolutionary troll factions, and continuation of the struggle to [[anarchize]] or to democratize more deeply | ||
8. abdication of [[GodKing]], major reform, eradication of [[Wikimedia corruption]], etc., i.e. [[Ragnarok]] the total troll victory. | 8. abdication of [[GodKing]], major reform, eradication of [[Wikimedia corruption]], etc., i.e. [[Ragnarok]] the total troll victory. | ||
9. a [[Lowest Troll]] emerges to moderate the new more democratic structure, and deal with [[trolling]] the only way that works: by trolling back, using [[politics as usual]] | |||
10. now that real politics and [[wiki politics]] have merged, the outputs of the wiki can now be respected as real information subject to fair [[peer review]] with no [[sysop power structure]] distorting it into propaganda | |||
Apparently no wiki has ever emerged from these transitions, as even the most advanced [[large public wiki]]s are probably only at about stage 5 or 6 right now | Apparently no wiki has ever emerged from these transitions, as even the most advanced [[large public wiki]]s are probably only at about stage 5 or 6 right now | ||