Gemenskap

(svenska) Den här sidan är en essä. Den är inte en av Wikimedias policys eller riktlinjer, och återspeglar kanske endast författarnas åsikter. Uppdatera sidan om det behövs eller diskutera innehållet på diskussionssidan.

Den här sidan handlar om gemenskap, om interaktioner mellan användare genom wikiprojekt. Tidigare öppnades denna sida med frågan "Är Wikipedia verkligen en gemenskap?" Nu är situationen mycket bredare.

thumb|right|Detta föråldrade diagram visar icke-Wikipedia-projekt som en del av Wikipedia-communityn. Det är föråldrat eftersom sådana projekt lockar användare som inte är från Wikipedia, och användare som bidrar mycket mer till dessa projekt än de gör till Wikipedia.

This is an attempt to show a Wikimedia community partitioned into different projects, perhaps ignoring that some users contribute to multiple projects.

Users from enwiki, dewiki, and frwiki effectively own the 2004 Board election. Click image to zoom.

Body risk

An early claim was that Wikipedia is not a community because it does not share body risk. The pseudonyms and IP addresses do not correspond to real people; it is unlikely a community could be built on virtual people maybe. Because the not-Wikipedia projects also allow pseudonyms and IP addresses, they have the same situation.

One idea for Wikipedia is to build a free encyclopedia together through the common goal of building a free encyclopedia. However, a community goes beyond the simple sharing of a simplified vision, and includes common community values. In 2012, English Wikipedia appears to have common values as well: assume good faith, no personal attacks, NPOV disputes, and user talk templates. Wikinews also has those four attributes, but not in the same manner. In not-Wikipedia, not-Wikinews projects, NPOV disputes and user talk templates appear to be much less important.

Perhaps Wikipedia and Wikinews are more like families than communities. One does not choose a family, but belongs to it. However, a family is a cultural idea that varies worldwide, so this paragraph may be incomprehensible to some peoples.

Some users remain bothered by the notion that Wikimedians cannot constitute a community because they do not share body risks. If we only consider those Wikimedians who are humans, we are all part of at least one community: the human community. Right now, we are all sharing the risks of being hurt or killed, by war, AIDS, or by poor atmospheric quality. In biological terms, a community is a group from one species living together and strongly interrelated. Communities cause a mixture of benefits and disadvantages; communities are stable when, over time, both the whole community and the individuals that make it up benefit. Diversity and communality both play roles in community.

Wikibooks and partition

Wikibooks is a special case. The project divides itself into multiple, autonomous book projects. English Wikibooks, in particular, is lacking a mechanism to repel new book projects that are outside the scope of Wikibooks, given by a official enforced policy.

Wikisource likes uniformity: a single standard Header template on English Wikisource introduces most texts.

Kan Wikipedia-gemenskapen bli en Wikimedia-gemenskap?

Det är redan så. Till exempel har vi Template:IRC channel cloaks för olika Wikimedia-projekt, och vi har också "wikimedia/"-klappar. Åtminstone på Freenode kan vi ha en Wikimedia-community.

Se även

• Wikipedias gemenskap
• Falska gemenskapen
• IRC-kanaler
• File:2004 WMF Election participation2.png bild som visar "gemenskap"