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This edition The Olive Branch is focusing on a 2nd dispute resolution RfC. Two significant proposals have been made. Below we describe the background and recent progress and detail those proposals. Please review them and follow the link at the bottom to comment at the RfC. We need your input!
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Until late 2003, Jimmy Wales was the arbiter in all major disputes. After the Mediation Committee and the Arbitration Committee were founded, Wales delegated his roles of dispute resolution to these bodies. In addition to these committees, the community has developed a number of informal processes of dispute resolution. At its peak, over 17 dispute resolution venues existed. Disputes were submitted in each venue in a different way. Due to the complexity of Wikipedia dispute resolution, members of the community were surveyed in April 2012 about their experiences with dispute resolution. In general, the community believes that dispute resolution is too hard to use and is divided among too many venues. Many respondents also reported their experience with dispute resolution had suffered due to a shortage of volunteers and backlogging, which may be due to the disparate nature of the process. An evaluation of dispute resolution forums was made in May this year, in which data on response and resolution time, as well as success rates, was collated. This data is here.
Leading off from the survey in April and the evaluation in May, several changes to dispute resolution noticeboard (DRN) were proposed. Rather than using a wikitext template to bring disputes to DRN, editors used a new javascript form. This form was simpler to use, but also standardised the format of submissions and applied a word limit so that DRN volunteers could more easily review disputes. A template to summarise, and a robot to maintain the noticeboard, were also created. As a result of these changes, volunteers responded to disputes in a third of the time, and resolved them 60% faster when compared to May. Successful resolution of disputes increased by 17%. Submissions were 25% shorter by word count.(see Dispute Resolution Noticeboard Statistics - August compared to May) Outside of DRN other simplification has taken place. The Mediation Cabal was closed in August, and Wikiquette assistance was closed in September. Nevertheless, around fifteen different forums still exist for the resolution of Wikipedia disputes.
Given the success of the past efforts at DR reform, the current RFC proposes we implement: 1) A submission gadget for every DR venue tailored to the unique needs of that forum.
2) A universal dispute resolution wizard, accessible from Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.
3) Additionally, we're seeking any ideas on how we can attract and retain more dispute resolution volunteers. |
Please share your thoughts at the RfC.
--The Olive Branch 18:44, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
In your recent edits to London Borough of Merton and Greater London, you replaced references to "The largest ethnic-minority communities" with "The largest ethnic communities", and "The percentage of population from ethnic minorities" with "The percentage of population from ethnic backgrounds".
This is incorrect, because everyone has an ethnicity, even if they are not in a minority. So the articles needed to make clear that they were referring to minority ethnic groups (as distinct from people of white British ethnicity, which is the majority ethnic group in the standard UK categorisations). Though "ethnic" is sometimes used colloquially to mean "non-European", this is not correct in formal writing.
Also, in Royal Tunbridge Wells you changed the name of the post town. But Royal Mail's name for the official post town is "Tunbridge Wells", as was made clear in the wikitext comment that you also deleted. You can check the post town name and official postal address at http://www.royalmail.com/postcode-finder For example:
Please take care to ensure that you do not change articles without verifying that your amendments are accurate, especially when other editors have previously reverted similar changes.
Thank you.
post_town
parameter is clearly intended to list the official post town name, not aliases for the name which may also be in use. After all, there is space for only one name, so the official one must take precedence. —
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Re: this edit, I have reverted you, and warn you against further edit warring and use of misleading/incorrect edit-summaries. There is a discussion about the section on the article talk page here - please join the discussion rather than blindly reverting. Thank you. DuncanHill ( talk) 17:40, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
The direct link to the section is here. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:40, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, I'm sure if someone wants me to participate, they will enter into dialogue here Yummy Dunn ( talk) 20:49, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Thank you. specifically here DuncanHill ( talk) 22:54, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia. However, please know that editors do not own articles and should respect the work of their fellow contributors on St Austell. If you create or edit an article, know that others are free to change its content. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. DuncanHill ( talk) 22:54, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
You appear to be engaged in a long-term pattern of disruption around ethnicity changes and free masons. Would you like to voluntarily commit to a topic ban on those subjects and to be civil? Alternatively, we can propose and enforce community sanctions, but a voluntary topic ban would avoid messy drama. Toddst1 ( talk) 15:55, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
You have been engaged in a long-term pattern of disruption around ethnicity changes and free masons that has led to numerous discussions on ANI. That disruption must stop immediately.
Any further disruption related to these topics including but not limited to the addition of unsourced or poorly sourced material, edit warring, removal of sourced material or incivility may lead to an immediate block without further notice or discussion. Anyone observing disruption by you related to these areas in the future may bring the matter to my attention or bring the matter to ANI for immediate action.
Please consider this an opportunity to change your behavior as that would be the best outcome. Toddst1 ( talk) 21:24, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
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Please note, whilst you are free to remove material from your talk page instead of archiving it, removal of warnings is taken to mean that they have been read and understood. Mjroots ( talk) 18:35, 19 September 2012 (UTC)
This edition The Olive Branch is focusing on a 2nd dispute resolution RfC. Two significant proposals have been made. Below we describe the background and recent progress and detail those proposals. Please review them and follow the link at the bottom to comment at the RfC. We need your input!
View the full newsletter
|
---|
Until late 2003, Jimmy Wales was the arbiter in all major disputes. After the Mediation Committee and the Arbitration Committee were founded, Wales delegated his roles of dispute resolution to these bodies. In addition to these committees, the community has developed a number of informal processes of dispute resolution. At its peak, over 17 dispute resolution venues existed. Disputes were submitted in each venue in a different way. Due to the complexity of Wikipedia dispute resolution, members of the community were surveyed in April 2012 about their experiences with dispute resolution. In general, the community believes that dispute resolution is too hard to use and is divided among too many venues. Many respondents also reported their experience with dispute resolution had suffered due to a shortage of volunteers and backlogging, which may be due to the disparate nature of the process. An evaluation of dispute resolution forums was made in May this year, in which data on response and resolution time, as well as success rates, was collated. This data is here.
Leading off from the survey in April and the evaluation in May, several changes to dispute resolution noticeboard (DRN) were proposed. Rather than using a wikitext template to bring disputes to DRN, editors used a new javascript form. This form was simpler to use, but also standardised the format of submissions and applied a word limit so that DRN volunteers could more easily review disputes. A template to summarise, and a robot to maintain the noticeboard, were also created. As a result of these changes, volunteers responded to disputes in a third of the time, and resolved them 60% faster when compared to May. Successful resolution of disputes increased by 17%. Submissions were 25% shorter by word count.(see Dispute Resolution Noticeboard Statistics - August compared to May) Outside of DRN other simplification has taken place. The Mediation Cabal was closed in August, and Wikiquette assistance was closed in September. Nevertheless, around fifteen different forums still exist for the resolution of Wikipedia disputes.
Given the success of the past efforts at DR reform, the current RFC proposes we implement: 1) A submission gadget for every DR venue tailored to the unique needs of that forum.
2) A universal dispute resolution wizard, accessible from Wikipedia:Dispute resolution.
3) Additionally, we're seeking any ideas on how we can attract and retain more dispute resolution volunteers. |
Please share your thoughts at the RfC.
--The Olive Branch 18:44, 24 September 2012 (UTC)
In your recent edits to London Borough of Merton and Greater London, you replaced references to "The largest ethnic-minority communities" with "The largest ethnic communities", and "The percentage of population from ethnic minorities" with "The percentage of population from ethnic backgrounds".
This is incorrect, because everyone has an ethnicity, even if they are not in a minority. So the articles needed to make clear that they were referring to minority ethnic groups (as distinct from people of white British ethnicity, which is the majority ethnic group in the standard UK categorisations). Though "ethnic" is sometimes used colloquially to mean "non-European", this is not correct in formal writing.
Also, in Royal Tunbridge Wells you changed the name of the post town. But Royal Mail's name for the official post town is "Tunbridge Wells", as was made clear in the wikitext comment that you also deleted. You can check the post town name and official postal address at http://www.royalmail.com/postcode-finder For example:
Please take care to ensure that you do not change articles without verifying that your amendments are accurate, especially when other editors have previously reverted similar changes.
Thank you.
post_town
parameter is clearly intended to list the official post town name, not aliases for the name which may also be in use. After all, there is space for only one name, so the official one must take precedence. —
Richardguk (
talk)
23:55, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
— Richardguk ( talk) 05:02, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi. Thank you for your recent edits. Wikipedia appreciates your help. We noticed though that when you edited St Austell, you added links pointing to the disambiguation pages Rose Croix and Royal Arch ( check to confirm | fix with Dab solver). Such links are almost always unintended, since a disambiguation page is merely a list of "Did you mean..." article titles. Read the FAQ • Join us at the DPL WikiProject.
It's OK to remove this message. Also, to stop receiving these messages, follow these opt-out instructions. Thanks, DPL bot ( talk) 10:49, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Your attention has previously been drawn to both WP:BRD and WP:NPA try and abide by them ---- Snowded TALK 13:00, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Re: this edit, I have reverted you, and warn you against further edit warring and use of misleading/incorrect edit-summaries. There is a discussion about the section on the article talk page here - please join the discussion rather than blindly reverting. Thank you. DuncanHill ( talk) 17:40, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Hello. There is currently a discussion at Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents regarding an issue with which you may have been involved. Thank you.
The direct link to the section is here. DuncanHill ( talk) 20:40, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Thank you, I'm sure if someone wants me to participate, they will enter into dialogue here Yummy Dunn ( talk) 20:49, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Constructive contributions to Wikipedia are appreciated, but a recent edit of yours has an edit summary that appears to be inaccurate or inappropriate. Please use edit summaries that accurately tell other editors what you did, and feel free to use the sandbox for any tests you may want to do. Thank you. specifically here DuncanHill ( talk) 22:54, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
Welcome to Wikipedia. Everyone is welcome to contribute constructively to Wikipedia. However, please know that editors do not own articles and should respect the work of their fellow contributors on St Austell. If you create or edit an article, know that others are free to change its content. Take a look at the welcome page to learn more about contributing to this encyclopedia. Thank you. DuncanHill ( talk) 22:54, 9 November 2012 (UTC)
You appear to be engaged in a long-term pattern of disruption around ethnicity changes and free masons. Would you like to voluntarily commit to a topic ban on those subjects and to be civil? Alternatively, we can propose and enforce community sanctions, but a voluntary topic ban would avoid messy drama. Toddst1 ( talk) 15:55, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
You have been engaged in a long-term pattern of disruption around ethnicity changes and free masons that has led to numerous discussions on ANI. That disruption must stop immediately.
Any further disruption related to these topics including but not limited to the addition of unsourced or poorly sourced material, edit warring, removal of sourced material or incivility may lead to an immediate block without further notice or discussion. Anyone observing disruption by you related to these areas in the future may bring the matter to my attention or bring the matter to ANI for immediate action.
Please consider this an opportunity to change your behavior as that would be the best outcome. Toddst1 ( talk) 21:24, 10 November 2012 (UTC)
Hi,
You appear to be eligible to vote in the current
Arbitration Committee election. The
Arbitration Committee is the panel of editors responsible for conducting the Wikipedia
arbitration process. It has the authority to enact binding solutions for disputes between editors, primarily related to serious behavioural issues that the community has been unable to resolve. This includes the ability to impose
site bans,
topic bans, editing restrictions, and other measures needed to maintain our editing environment. The
arbitration policy describes the Committee's roles and responsibilities in greater detail. If you wish to participate, you are welcome to
review the candidates' statements and submit your choices on
the voting page. For the Election committee,
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