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Dispute Resolution

This is a WikiProject, an area for focused collaboration among Wikipedians.

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Welcome to WikiProject Dispute Resolution, a collaboration between several Wikipedians dedicated to improving dispute resolution on Wikipedia. This page and its subpages contain their suggestions and various resources; it is hoped that this project will help to focus the efforts of other Wikipedians interested in dispute resolution. If you would like to help, please join the project, inquire on the talk page and see the to-do list below.

[edit] Goals

Create centralized reference-desk style page which will list open disputes, including a how-to use guide as well as when/when not to use the particular forums.
Grow the ranks of editors who are active in dispute resolution, to increase the amount of disputes that get handled properly and resolved, as opposed to getting mismanaged or ignored, resulting in escalation.
Create a "crash-course" for editors working in dispute resolution. It would perhaps have a list of different types of disputes as examples, and various techniques that could be used to tackle them.
Minimize the effectiveness of aggressive out-of-policy behavior.

[edit] Scope

Improve visibility of Wikipedia disputes (Make it easier for people to access DR and for mediators to find the disputes to help resolve them)
Improve the understanding of users who work in both content and conduct dispute resolution, with ways to tackle and resolve a variety of disputes.

[edit] Open tasks

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To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Dispute Resolution:

Here are some tasks you can do:

Other:
- Work on implementing proposed new structure with ideas such as—binding content discussions
- Work on getting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Dispute Resolution/Dispute resolution requests page ready for implementation. Need to write how-to guides for how to use the boards, and compile a list of forums to add to it.
- Code a bot that can differentiate between the least and most active threads on our DR pages, and list them on the above page (likely using transclusion and only include tags)

[edit] Participants

Please feel free to add yourself here, and to indicate any areas of particular interest. If you want, you can also add one of our userboxes to your userpage to indicate your participation.

Active

Steven Zhang (talk · contribs) Interested in building a think tank for ideas to reform DR. Currently working on a central noticeboard, currently in progress at /Dispute resolution requests. 05:28, 11 November 2011 (UTC)
Mr. Stradivarius (talk · contribs) 21:58, 13 November 2011 (UTC)
TransporterMan (talk · contribs) 19:42, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
SilkTork (talk · contribs) Dispute itself is a healthy part of any academic endeavour - what I would be interested to see is not an attempt to eliminate dispute, but to provide an informal structure that allows dispute to take place on talkpages in a supportive and neutral manner. It would be worth looking at actions that provoke negative responses in a dispute - personalising and reverting are the two major ones. SilkTork ^{✔Tea time} 11:39, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
PhilKnight (talk) 13:12, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Sunray (talk) 18:19, 25 November 2011 (UTC) Two aspects of disputes on Wikipedia concern me. One is a characteristic lack of civility in certain types of dispute (e.g. nationalistic, religious), especially if they are protracted. The other is positionality. By this I mean taking a POV and locking onto it (likely a worse problem online than in RL). So I do agree that earlier identification and availability of mediation would be helpful. Sunray (talk) 18:19, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
John Carter (talk · contribs) - Very much agree with SilkTork above. Also agree that, maybe, having some sort of perhaps earlier involvement in disputes related to ethnicity and religion might be very useful, if such involvement could be arranged. John Carter (talk) 21:30, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
CarolMooreDC It's also important to train users in what tools to use in disputes. Even now I find myself engaged in talk page disputes far too long before going for outside help. And then too often the other part(ies) yells they are being "attacked." So knowledge on all sides is necessary. CarolMooreDC 03:30, 26 November 2011 (UTC)
MichaelNetzer (talk · contribs) All issues mentioned above are compounded by the experience editors have in drawing out disputes and turning the argumentation itself into the problem, making things much more difficult to resolve. There exists a dire need for a more massive, potent and accessible DR system. This project is a welcomed step in that direction. -MichaelNetzer (talk) 18:59, 27 November 2011 (UTC)
Nuujinn (talk) 02:17, 29 November 2011 (UTC)
AGK [•] 10:02, 29 November 2011 (UTC) I would participate in a discussion about any area of the Wikipedia dispute resolution process, but I am especially interested in the higher-level components.
ItsZippy (talk · contribs) Interested in all areas of DR, really. Involved in 3O, DRN and MedCab.
Whenaxis (talk · contribs)
Xavexgoem (talk) 22:22, 11 February 2012 (UTC) Like AGK, but I'm more interested in the low level bits.... as well as solving the civility problem mentioned by Sunray.

Inactive/Observers

Ebe123 (talk · contribs) For informal things. 11:41, 19 November 2011 (UTC)
Bobrayner (talk · contribs) 17:50, 24 November 2011 (UTC) - Interested in the whole DR ecosystem, and hopefully resolving some disagreements at an earlier stage in the lifecycle before they flourish into epic disputes...
Fred Bauder (talk · contribs) 18:51, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
Jayron32 (talk · contribs) I support improving DR processes, streamlining things so users in disputes have a more positive outcome. 19:51, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
slatersteven (talk · contribs) I would agree that streamlined system would make the process less painfull. Intervention at an earlier stage of dispute would be good. Slatersteven (talk) 20:29, 24 November 2011 (UTC)
Qwyrxian (talk · contribs) 00:48, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 05:55, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Ynhockey (talk · contribs) 12:36, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
Herostratus (talk) 15:07, 25 November 2011 (UTC)
☺Coppertwig (talk) 14:20, 26 November 2011 (UTC) I very much agree with the goal "Minimize the effectiveness of aggressive out-of-policy behavior." Unfortunately, when people ask for help because others are being uncivil towards them, often the community is suspicious that they're just trying to get an advantage in a dispute, and treats them harshly.
Thorncrag (talk · contribs)
I'm interested in reforming the DR process. But let's try to work with the community instead of imposing top-down solutions. Shooterwalker (talk) 21:07, 28 January 2012 (UTC)
as an observer --Guerillero | My Talk 04:20, 6 December 2011 (UTC)
I see my role here as mainly a facilitator, putting people in touch with each other and their ideas and then seeing what they can come up with. Peter jackson (talk) 13:44, 5 February 2012 (UTC)

[edit] Idea lab

This is a list of ideas for improving dispute resolution, whether by instituting new policies, new processes, more help for editors or mediators, or anything else you can think of. You can either link to other pages from here, or include your ideas directly. If things get too long we will put them in a sub-page. Please add everything you can think of!

Developing

Wikipedia:Binding RFCs - ideas for RFCs which could result in binding content decisions
A bot that can automatically tag possible disputes based on reverts and/or talk page keywords
Work on getting the Wikipedia:WikiProject Dispute Resolution/Dispute resolution requests page ready for implementation. Need to write how-to guides for how to use the boards, and compile a list of forums to add to it.