[Sig-bwp] wiki policies vs fistfights and who's minding the store

[Nancy G. Faget]

Wikipedia's experience promoted the powers that be to develop policies, cultivate a level of oversight .... rather than act as referee at fighting matches
   
  New Yorker (July 31, 2006) 
  Schiff, Stacy. Know it All: Can Wikipedia conquer expertise? Available online at: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/060731fa_fact 
  "At first, Wales handled the fistfights himself, but he was reluctant to ban anyone from the site. As the number of users increased, so did the editing wars and the incidence of vandalism.... The policy grew out of a series of particularly vitriolic battles, including one over the U.S. economy-it was experiencing either high growth and low unemployment or low growth and high unemployment."
   
   
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  Now the big question of the day.  Who's mind the blog?  Who's up to bat on the list for being the blogger of the month for August?  Or better yet, who wants to take it on for the month of August?
  http://asist.typepad.com/sig_bwp/  
   
  There is some content up there and lots of comments, questions from folks viewing it.  Do I see someone's hand raised?  

 		
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