[WikiEN-l] We need your advice!

Sat May 29 22:33:20 UTC 2004

Hello!

The German-language Wikipedia is more and more facing the same problems 
as the English one. We seldom used to have more than one troll at a 
time, but times they are changing, and we are a bit concerned about the 
future. At the moment we have to deal with a very persistent troll and 
another user who has been banned and keeps coming back. In addition to 
that we have a few long enduring edit-wars. I think we have to create 
new policies and develop processes to handle theses problems.

The English Wikipedia has much more experience in these things, good and 
bad, and we would very much like to profit from that. It would be very 
helpful if some of you could write a few paragraphs about your 
experience with trolls, how you handle them, how you enforce a user ban, 
and what your experience with the mediation and arbitration committees 
is. We could adopt mechanisms that work and avoid mistakes you might 
have already made.

I think the best thing would be to put you reports on meta, but I can't 
make up a good name for the page at the moment. Of course you don't have 
to write in German, most of us have no problem reading English, but 
writing is a different matter. Thanks for your effort!

Kurt

P.S.: Any advice is welcome, but personally I'd be especially interested 
in the opinion of Cunc and Ray about these issues.

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