Wikimedia CEE Meeting 2016/Programme/Submissions/Elephants and Mahouts: Conflict Management for Wikipedians

Elephants and Mahouts: Conflict Management for Wikipedians edit

Name(s) and/or username(s) edit

Asaf Bartov, Asaf (WMF) (Ijon)
Wikimedia Foundation

Topic edit

  • Conflict management

Type of submission (Please choose one) edit

  • Workshop (work in groups)

Summary edit

All wikis experience conflict. It is as inevitable as taxes. But there are some well-understood principles to navigating inevitable conflict better and less painfully, and I would like to offer some concrete distinctions and mental models that could help us be better participants in conflict when it occurs, and to better avoid conflict the rest of the time.

I will present concepts and the participants will have brief exercises in groups. It is based on a condensation of a 2-day workshop on conflict management I had produced for the Ukrainian community in Kyiv in May 2016.

Expected outcomes edit

The outcomes would be quite hard to measure, but are expected to be a more sophisticated and less instinctive approach to conflict by workshop attendees in their respective wikis. Even a single person's changed attitude can transform a conflict for the better.

Duration (without Q&A) edit

90 minutes.

Specific requirements edit

I will have slides. A flip chart would be a plus, but isn't essential.

Slides or further information edit

 

Interested attendees (Please add yourself, and you may indicate your questions to the presenter). edit

  1. --アンタナナ 19:57, 15 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  2. --Лорд Бъмбъри (talk) 19:50, 18 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  3. --Polimerek (talk) 08:25, 19 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  4. --Γλαύκος (talk) 08:16, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  5. Halibutt (talk) 15:08, 20 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  6. Borovi4ok (talk) 14:03, 16 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]