Grants:IdeaLab/Some administrators drive content contributors away.

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Some administrators drive content contributors away.

I noticed an increased aggressiveness of some administrators, now that Wikipedia has surpassed the Encyclopedia Britannica in number of articles. Administrators should be advised that Wikipedia exists because of new articles created and content added (both text and media), not deleted. Thank you.

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created on16:33, 28 July 2018 (UTC)

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Do a periodic retraining of administrators, as well as of editors (registered and anonymous). Every time one logs in, a window should popup with a random topic from Wikipedia rules, including rules of online behavior. E.g. "Did you know that using multiple accounts is can be investigated as sockpupeting? Click here to learn more."

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•  Oppose While I think I understand the problem and agree with its seriousness (and even feel affected by the problem), I think the proposed solution is just treating a symptom. This seems to be a case where the kid with the hammer can't find any nail at all? From my perspective wielding the hammer called EPR (https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IdeaLab/Multidimensional_EPR_(Earned_Public_Reputation)), I think it's better to help the administrators understand the contributors so they can respond to their mistakes in more constructive ways without driving them away from Wikipedia. Training and retraining? Why not just see more clearly? Shanen (talk) 23:09, 28 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support ...been driven away from multiple articles Ne0Freedom (talk) 12:01, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
• Comment It's sooo painful to newcomers to have their edits reverted. It literally feels like wikipedia is *not* a community source, just one closely guarded by lurking "managers"... Rogerdpack (talk) 19:59, 31 July 2018 (UTC)
•  Support One gets very frustrated when administrators in Slovak version of Wiktionary don't allow pictures in entries. as there were deleted by bots from my and others contributions. Wiktionary is one project in many languages, which should have one sets of rules.Bluepossum (talk) 23:48, 31 July 2018 (UTC)

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