Talk:Homeopathy edit war

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Opinion

Edit wars at Wikipedia are the stupidest things ever.

Best to walk away and write the article you want at Wikademia. Emperor 03:40, 13 June 2009 (UTC)

:semi-lol: aww. Thanks. :) Wikademia

Collaborators welcome?

Is this a page which you would welcome the collaboration from others or would you rather have sole discretion over the direction of the whole presentation? Or something else? I imagine you will be supported however you would like to have this be. Wikademia

I do not mind constructive collaborators. --JWSchmidt 00:23, June 16, 2009 (UTC)

Ethics of this project and what this may be parralell to in brick-and-mortar academia

Looking back in retrospect on past experiences, the question comes to mind if it is ethical to post real pseudonyms/names of contributors to the big wiki involved with the articles at hand, especially if it could upset others, which it seems you are saying it may. I don't have an answer to this. I don't know. These seem like complicated and system related questions that appear, at least to myself to be rather complex.

Then to simplify the issue, do you or anyone know of analogous sorts of studies/learning/research that have taken place in brick-and-mortar academia?

Thank you. Eme

I'm not interested in "outing" wiki editors, but I see no problem in studying the editing patterns of wiki editors and learning from those patterns. The record of wiki edits is public and I do not see any reasonable basis for someone saying that it is not ethical to study that record. It would only be unethical if editors were given some reason to think that their edits were not public and open to study. My goal is to find ways to make wiki communities more productive and less prone to battles. --JWSchmidt 00:32, June 16, 2009 (UTC)

What, if in these studies, different user:names were referred to as "this/these human/s" or "this collaborator" or "this user"? The actual paged link to may show their identified pseudonym/name, which we cannot control for well, but then at least here we would attempt to respect privacy and anonymity in that regard, while still showing the nature of the interactions (hopefully) successfully and fruitfully. How might something like that work/function/sound? Thank you. Eme

I am taking that approach when a wiki user has requested that their real name not be revealed, such as when they at one time edited by using an account name that was their real name. However, that only applies to a few editors. That approach would not work for me if I had to apply it to everyone. Even when using the actual usernames, is hard for me to keep track of all the editors who participated in this sustained edit war. It might be possible for you to install an extension such as this one that would allow restricted access to the data analysis pages where usernames are mentioned. --JWSchmidt 13:55, June 16, 2009 (UTC)

I could install something like that. That may not be necessary right now. And if necessary, it seems restricted areas can be added later.

I appreciate you taking the time, and to be here dialoging with me. I find all of this interesting. Eme