• WikiForLargeScaleConsensus

Merged with FeaturesInWikiSoftwareForFacilitatingConsensus

Participants

• BrandonCsSanders

• NathanRichards

• MarkSzpakowski

• MicheleAnnJenkins

• ZachCopley

• LouisPhilippeHuberdean

• EvanProdromou

Wiki Features for Achieving Consensus

• Make the backing page (talk or whatever) a really an article in and of itself that explains why the page is the way it is (remove egos and signatures)
• Try branches so that someone could demo what it looks like ... add merge
  • Choose your own adventure potentially (different versions/branches of the same page)
• Brainstorming tools - adding in tools to let people's ideas flow, making lists, etc.
• Signing vs not signing posts - conflict? Competition, personalisation, "ownership of comments", etc.
• "Communities of practise" - consensus, there's point in producing something

Creating Adult Content Policy Via ConsensusPolling

• Started polarized ("adult content is immoral, if we have it I need to leave the company vs. censorship is immoral if we ban it I'll have to leave the company")
• 30 out of 32 participants at YES on the policy (including the two most polarized individuals)

• http://www.aboutus.org/index.php?title=AdultContentPolicy&oldid=6603536

• Keys
  • One document ... like a bus with different drivers over time (wanders around but we arrive together)
  • Not Yet ... responsibility to articulate what it would take to get to yes (most efficient to just edit the policy)
  • YES ... responsibility to help Not Yet folks articulate their concerns