Forum:Wiki Mediation

Hi Everyone.

So this wiki has been going through some difficult times. What I would like to try to do is to have a public and full discussion on a few of the issues. It's not clear yet that all involved will be willing to participate, but I will be unbanning and Gracey91 and Mathmagician to allow them to join this discussion.

Generally, staff try not to get involved in every wiki dispute. It's important that each community works out it's own day-to-day management and policies. But it seems this dispute is one that needs a bit more help, and my aim here is to facilitate the discussion and try to help make it a productive, useful, and sucessful one. And, importantly, to try and help this not escalate further and affect everyone's enjoyment of the wiki.

From what I'm hearing, there are a couple of areas we need to talk about. One question is how videos are handled on the wiki. At the moment, HeroGaming is the "Video Admin" and organizes which videos should be on the site. Some here feel the selection of videos should be more open while others are fine with the current arrangement. This is something that will need to be discussed by the community, but isn't really the key issue right now.

What we need to work out at the moment, is: * What exactly are the areas of disagreement between HeroGaming and Mathmagician and Gracy? * What has been happening both on and off wiki to trigger this problem? * How can we resolve the disagreement and bring calm back to the wiki? * Should Mathmagician and Gracy's rights should be replaced?

One aspect of this is that I would like to hear from editing users of this wiki (and, in particular and Gracy, HeroGaming and Mathmagician). I would say that the reading/viewing users (in particular those who follow HeroGaming on YouTube) have had their say, let's hear from the editors now.

I realize that some of you may be concerned that speaking frankly may be difficult in the current situation, but it really will help to hear from you. If you only feel comfortable commenting logged out, that's OK, although I'll be giving more weight to comments that I can see come from regular contributors (if you are editing from an IP that you used logged in, I may be able see that you are an editor here - although I will not share IP or account information with others of course).

So, to start with, I would like to hear publicly from each side: what do you feel are the roots of this issue? What are the problems, and what have been the conversations so far, both here and off-wiki? (Off-wiki will be harder to look at, because incidents and conversations may not be provable - but I would like to know where elements of this dispute have happened).

Please, let's keep this as calm and civil as possible. I have to be on other wikis too, but will try to call in as much as possible to assist in this discussion.

Thanks all -- sannse http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb32675/wikia/images/e/e9/WikiaStaff.png (help forum | blog)  21:45, February 1, 2012 (UTC)