Wikipedia:WikiProject community rehabilitation/Idea/Notes

Some notes or lifts. A chalkboard in the front of the room.....feel free to add/strike/redesign...

• Not Esperanza...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Esperanza

• Liquid Threads...http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/LiquidThreads

• A Collaborative possibility...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community_Facilitation

• the Brainstorming guidelines at WP:ARFR and the Brainstorming#Ground_Rules

"furnish the room" site socialization -Online social community -edit war with a friend? -Not FaceBook Reduce the turmoil... Support contributors... "...take itself less seriously" -humorous pages... -fun while working here... To Newbie-----> "You can't do that" Radio Channel/Screen Reader "the good old days" or "the good days to come" Avoid the Drama -Stay away -or move away Relativize your importance Is WP:Utopia attainable? simultaneous meetups engender stronger community ties... needs a Name...

Editors dis-like each other -ingrown contentiousness -cliques -the Herd...(heard?) pursuit of excellence Add personal touch to Advice/Warning -ugly and aggressive "gifs" -No nuclear waste here... create Policy Proposals Topic bans add subpages to Talk pages life is symplified enourmously when you dont have to defend yourself to anyone and you receive support instead of criticism.... a readiness to meet people half way..." If it please the court! No WikiLawyering Coffee Table meet and greet Nobody's helping the confused newbies... Brainstorming methodology... -a collaborative effort -the evaluation should not be of the "approve/disapprove" variety -it tends to inhibit contributions -evaluate after brainstorming No Usernames, no identities, no strife.