[WikiEN-l] Again, TINC (Was: Potential Wikipedian growing pains)

Thu Sep 22 16:47:15 UTC 2005

LOL, I'm obviously not talking about "the" admins. I'm talking about
cliques: People who '''do''' show a vested interest in some
particular, and coordinate edits accordingly. There are also cliques
which are primarilly focused on chatting w one another, leaving small
jokes and images on one anothers pages. The latter are usually a good
thing, encouraging community and making people happier about editing.
They can become a problem however when 1 member has a conflict, and
rallies the others into prejudiced partisan support.

Please be mindful, were talking about middle school style
'''cliques''', not some outdated usenet concept or crazed conspiracy
theories w Jimbo playing puppeteer from the shadows.

Jack (Sam Spade)

On 9/22/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 9/22/05, Jack Lynch <jack.i.lynch at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This distinction between Clique and Cabal is an important one. While I
> > suppose one could imagine a "developers clique", or a "old hands
> > clique" which might be synonymous w some peoples conception of a
> > cabal, I really don't see those as being a problem on the wiki. Rather
> > the problem I see are users and admins which act as one,  creating
> > partisan voting blocks on areas of mutual interest, and coordinating
> > efforts to shout down criticism and attempts to NPOV their POV.
> >
> > Jack (Sam Spade)
> >
>
> You might have a case if anyone had ever managed to get the admins to
> agree on anything.
> --
> geni
>