User blog:WikiNumbers/The Ten Violations of Wiki Editing


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The Ten Violations of Wiki Editing is a set of practice that causes negative influence to wikis.

The Ten Violations

 * The tenth violation is being defined.


 * 1) [Treachery]: Maliciously attacking the admins or users.
 * 2) [Distrust]: Holding negative feelings towards users and policies.
 * 3) [Bias]: Unfairly treat users.
 * 4) [Idiocy]: Being nonsense.
 * 5) [Liar]: Inserting false information.
 * 6) [Disobedience]: Breaking local established standards.
 * 7) [Recklessness]: Jumping too quickly to conclusion.
 * 8) [Plagiary]: Stealing contents
 * 9) [Selfishness]: Monopolizing activities.

Treachery
"Treachery" is defined as "malice against users", which can fall under any of these:
 * Raiding/brigading from user(s) against communities.
 * Offensive pursuits across communities from a user against a user.
 * Atrocities against the users from the admins.

This violation is the most severe of all. Not only it harms the community by causing havoc to the current users and causing confidence loss to possible new users, it is a violation of the Terms of Use itself. Such violation will be met with a severe punishment, which may range from a local block, a global block, or even an account disable.

Idiocy
"Idiocy" is defined as "being oblivious, nonsense or redundant". While this violation is not severe, nor be considerable as "violation", it is listed as one for they cause discomfort to the community, as the people have to spend time on you instead of doing other things to respond to the unnecessary.

Liar
"Liar" is defined as "publishing of false information". All wikis share onecommon nature: that they are the provider of information, which ought to be true and neutral, and these information are visible to the entire world. The viewership of wikis are far greater than imagination, and impacts are severe when the readers are given the wrong idea.

This is the second most severe of the Ten Violations, and the most in term of face value, for misinformation reflects badly on any wiki. As such, the act of "liar" is generally dealt with a block.

Disobedience
"Disobedience" is defined as "breaking editing standards of communities". This violation causes harm towards stylization and unification, as while all edits follows the same standard, one inconsistency can lead to confusion for new users and disruption for readers. Even when done with good faith.

Recklessness
"Recklessness" is defined as "rushing towards conclusion". Discussions for improvement are a good sign for communities, but they have to be planned out throughly and be considerate before they are put into action. Thus, this violation causes not only viewer experiences disruption, but also an extra burden on the admins to clean the mess up.

Plagiary
"Plagiary" is defined as "theft of contents". Contents are creations from user's effort, and deserve credit wherever they are used. Plagiarism is a not only a disrespect to these creators, but also a violation to CC BY-SA.

The impact of plagiary to wiki is that it causes content creators to be discouraged from creation, which can cause wikis to be left outdated, and in extreme case, halts wiki's progression. It can also reflect the wiki as incapable of providing contents.

Selfishness
"Selfishness" is defined as "monopoly of activities". That is, practically barring edits from editors and only let a few select on the job. The limitation includes but is not limited to:
 * Excessively locking pages.
 * Messaging users to bar them off.
 * Prohibiting contents that are not violation.
 * Undoing addition only to return them later.

This act discorages new editors from editing, as they would feel they are not welcomed. While the act does not harm the wiki horizontally, for the wiki will always be in good shape, it will never improve to a greater height of standard.