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  • Category: Education
  • Founded: Feb 26, 2007
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These ideas would benefit Wikipedia, at least the English version, because they would allow for better articles. Discuss problems, disputes, blocks, bannings, and misunderstandings on Wikipedia. Ideas for a "Wikipedia Problems" Group:

I. Constitution - Related to Policies, Newspeak, Neologisms
a. It's guilt before innocence on Wikipedia
1. Mechanisms Don't Work to Prove Innocence, Get Help
2. Worse than French System of Guilt Till Proven Innocent
b. Value of free speech, other Anglo-American values e.g. against "self incrimination."
c. Value of work/freedom/no slavery/respect work (or elitism)
d. Fairness/admins apply double standards
II. Larry Sanger Article "Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism" and Ideas (Link Opens New Window):
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/12/30/142458/25
III.My Experience
a. Users with Pseudonyms - Not Their Real Name, "Sock Puppets"?
b. Larry Addresses Experiences - Anti-Elitism, Trolling
c. Admins Have Too Much Power/Not Enough Basis for Authority
d. Is There "Rule Drift" Where Rules Change to Suit the Admin in Power?
e. Mechanisms to Mediate Do Not Work as They Should
f. Policies, Newspeak, and Neologisms, e.g. "Meat Puppets" Should Be Different than "Sock Puppets"
f. Eventual Competent Enforcement of Grammar Rules
g. Value editors' contributions rather than making them feel unappreciated.

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I had issues getting the Wikipedia to allow me to post anything and then they told me twice from two different Administrators that they didn't care for the
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