Continued from More Heat Than Light.
More Light Than Heat Guideline aim to improve the overall quality of Wards Wiki.
Open Author and being subjected to Community Process
The assumption is that if every and all active participants (people who add/change/delete) aim to have their contributions, when netted, result in a better Wiki in any month, then Wiki itself is moving ahead.
it is important to note the "net" word in the above sentence. As I think most people would agree to "not being perfect" on the wiki 100% of the time. It is an important fault tolerant mechanism and often overlooked by ICT community. -- David Liu
The above is broken in way too many places, so that it needs to be deleted and restarted again with minimal to no assumptions and preconceived notions. To begin with there's no Community Process and there's never been such a thing as far as I can remember, unless you want to trivialize the idea by defining "comunnity process" := "whatever crap happens on wiki". And then the assumption is just wrong. It's trivial to find examples (even recent ones) where everybody aims for improving wiki, yet the net result is negative. --Costin (last change and merit some thoughts for contents in Heat Death Of Wiki? )
These activities are important to improving the quality of Wiki (at beginning of 2005)
Let Hot Pages Cool and stay away from Edit War
help remove new spam and reverse vandalism -> Fix Broken Windows
review and improve existing On Topic material
Make Room For All Viewpoints and aim for a Positive Dialogue Community
provide non-controversial guidance to newcomers. Encourage them to endorse Community Expectations
cheer up Wiki Zens discouraged by Wiki Noise Pollution
help defuse tensions amongst parties at odds with even other
review Deletion Conventions AGAIN, then
mark (old + useless + abandoned) On Topic material for later deletion
mark (old + useless + abandoned) Off Topic material for later deletion
See original on c2.com 