There is a difference between a vandal and a troll. A
vandal is a childish user who makes himself happy by
destroying the work of others. A toll is someone who
doesn't work well with others, or is prone to attitude
problems.
Wikibooks has a very different culture than Wikipedia.
Part of that is based on how the projects see
themselves. Wikibooks "feels" like a community of
somewhat independant projects, fairly loosly
connected. Therefore, what happens in a single book
has little effect on the majority of writers and users
who will never see it as it doesn't touch what they're
working on or reading. Wikipedia sees itself as a
unified whole. Every article in the encyclopedia is a
part of a closely connected "one", so each article
impacts all the others.
Contributors who may have a tendancy to personality
conflicts will have less triggers at Wikibooks.
Hopefully, by the time they get into a potentially
troll-creating situation, they are more likely to
appriciate the wiki culture and collaborative content
creation, and be less likely to become a troll.
John (Gentgeen)
--- Brianna Laugher <brianna.laugher(a)gmail.com> wrote:
BTW cf.
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikibooks:Staff_lounge#Banned_WP_editor_Primet…
which seems to have been accepted without question.
That's more the
kind of thing I was talking about...(again this is
more copyright
related, not social behaviour, and lazyquasar made a
good point that
in some cases people can "start anew".) I mean yes
each project has
its own community but I don't think it's beneficial
to treat them like
strangers. In situations like this we can work
together and save each
other some hassle.
Heh, imagine if WoW showed up at a new project and
we had this
attitude... "Give the man a chance! He might have
reformed!" :)
cheers
Brianna
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