Wikidata:Universal Code of Conduct consultation/Game

Universal Code of Conduct (UCoC)

Welcome to Universal Code of Conduct - The Game!

This is an experiment of thought, originally created by Civvi (WMF), that will rely on your creativity and insight, and that hopefully will provide us with some good insights about how the UCoC will be implemented across WMF projects.

The game is structured into several phases, each one with separate questions to be addressed. The most creative and interesting answers will be awarded a special barnstar, while all of your answers will be included in the Wikidata general feedback document (and will receive the personal gratitude of the UCoC facilitators team).

Introduction to the scenarios

A new multilingual and collaborative project for the creation of a "Galactic Cookbook Database" (yep, it's a nod to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy pentalogy (Q25169)) has recently been launched by WMF. Quite understandably, the project fascinates many people and in a short time gains a large number of very active participants.

The pioneering creators of the project immediately thought about writing general principles for users to follow while collaborating at the project. However, they relied a bit too much on assuming users' good faith, and they forgot to explain what to do if these indications were not respected.

It is therefore up to you, dear user/player, to help this young community by suggesting possible methods, tools and solutions to implement those general principles.

Note: many questions might sound odd or straight-away impossible to you, but they are a deliberately exaggerated version of real-life scenarios that can happen (or indeed happened) on a project. Keep that in mind, while answering!

Scenario #1 - The student and the chef

A relatively young and new user (who IRL is a young hotel management school student) is suffering severe intimidation by a more experienced user (who happens also to be a experienced chef). The two users have conflicting opinions about which are the ingredients of gnocchi (Q20063) - but the experienced chef is hot-headed and oftentimes loses control, heavily insulting the young student.

The young student doesn't know what to do, since it seems there is no place at all on the project to report such behaviours, nor does the student know how to report it. In your opinion, what should the young student (or the community) do in such case?

Any user can come along and say: Listen Experienced Chef, I wouldn't let anyone talk to me like that. Your expertise does not immunize you against complaints of other people. Antagonizing people does not make them receptive to your message. Would you be willing to accept my help finding a way to say it in a way that is more likely to get them to listen? Vexations (talk) 18:40, 21 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]
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Scenario #1b: the pot overflows

Our experienced but hot-headed chef decided to start publicly berating the young student also on social cuisine medias (Cookbook, Kettler, Potterest, Kitchengram...), on which both are registered. Is there something the community can or should do? If yes, what?

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Scenario #2: the employee and the employer

A project user, who disclosed personal details on her user page, finds out that another user - who is also her employer in real life - is systematically and deliberately adulterating recipes, removing curry powder (Q1144935) from every ingredient list he can.

Apparently, she is the first one to realise the extent of this apparently large-scale manipulation conducted by her employer, and is about to denounce him - but then stops, fearing that she might be fired or suffer other real-life personal retaliations by him. In your opinion, how can the community support the employee in reporting her boss, while trying to defend her privacy?

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Scenario #3: a dairy battle

An editor of the recipe book has included cream (Q13228) among the ingredients of the carbonara (Q876624); another editor, noticing the edit and knowing that cream (Q13228) does not belong to the recipe, reverts the edit. Soon an edit war starts between the two users, with the user supporting cream (Q13228) accusing the other user of being biased, not very objective and "on the side of the enemies of dairy product (Q185217)".

The discussion - and the accusations - go on for days, with no sign on either side of wanting to yield. What can the community do to manage the situation?

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Scenario #3b: a sour escalation

The discussion has escalated, involving more and more users: some moderators intervened both to bring the discussion back to more civilized tones, and to remove cream (Q13228) from the ingredients of carbonara (Q876624). However, the "pro-cream (Q13228) faction" is now openly accusing the moderators of siding "with the others", of being "censors", and of being "pawns in the hands of a cabal that wants to damage dairy product (Q185217) producers".

In your opinion, can the discussion be brought back to more normal tones? Or should the discussion be brought at the attention of somebody outside the community? Will this "external body" be able to understand the specifics of the cookbook database?

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