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=== problems === | === problems === | ||
Specific '''wiki management''' problems include: | Specific '''wiki management''' problems include, from longest to shortest term: | ||
==== infrastructural ==== | |||
*Picking [[wiki code]] that actually makes it easy to do the above, and avoiding that which has requirements set by a small clique of control freaks. | |||
*Balancing [[Consumerium:contributor]] vs. [[Consumerium:editor]] balances of power. This may involve some mechanics, e.g. an explicit [[revert currency]]. | |||
==== social ==== | |||
*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 [[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. | ||
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*Knowing when [[soft security]] can't apply, e.g. definition of [[Consumerium:vandalism]]. | *Knowing when [[soft security]] can't apply, e.g. definition of [[Consumerium:vandalism]]. | ||
* | *Detecting and moderating [[usurper]] behaviour before they must be [[driven off by trolls]]; making sure that trolls do not unfairly charge the usurpers with things they have not actually done, or create their own [[echo chamber]]. | ||
==== instructional ==== | |||
* | *[[Desysopping]] those who participate in creating or echoing [[spun death threat]]s, or granting these credibility or official status beyond what was actually said; this sort of libel has extremely serious consequences in an age of no-fly lists. If a comment is an actual threat of specific violence, it must be investigated. If not, then claims that it is, must be put to rest, before the conflict over the comment escalates to the point of violence itself. | ||
*[[ | *[[protected page]] mechanics | ||
People will actually care about the material we manage here. Jobs, companies, perhaps whole industries or national economies, will be at stake. It's foolish to imagine that [[Consumerium]] will not have all the same problems, and worse, than have been seen in every other [[large public wiki]], and some they haven't yet seen. If we are not prepared for the problems they ''have'' seen, it's not possible to be prepared for problems they haven't... | People will actually care about the material we manage here. Jobs, companies, perhaps whole industries or national economies, will be at stake. It's foolish to imagine that [[Consumerium]] will not have all the same problems, and worse, than have been seen in every other [[large public wiki]], and some they haven't yet seen. If we are not prepared for the problems they ''have'' seen, it's not possible to be prepared for problems they haven't... | ||