User blog:WikiNumbers/The Ten Violations of Wiki Editing


 * This article is under constuction

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

The Ten Violations

 * 1) [Treachery]: Maliciously attacking the admins or users.
 * 2) [Defiance]: Retaliating against policies and communities.
 * 3) [Distrust]: Holding negative feelings towards users and policies.
 * 4) [Bias]: Unfairly treat users.
 * 5) [Idiocy]: Being nonsense.
 * 6) [Liar]: Inserting false information.
 * 7) [Disobedience]: Breaking local established standards.
 * 8) [Recklessness]: Jumping too quickly to conclusion.
 * 9) [Plagiary]: Stealing contents
 * 10) [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.

Liar
"Liar" is defined as "publishing of false information". The nature of wikis is 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"

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.

This violation causes not only viewer experiences, 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.