Talk:Small Wiki Monitoring Team
There are discussions about systematic issues regarding content on both of these wikis. Rschen7754 02:02, 14 August 2022 (UTC)
Work with and listen to the community on the wikiproject you are helping
Tiõrv! After recent experiences with the SWMT on two separate wikipedia projects, I think that the "How to monitor a small wiki" section needs to include a new line with "Work with and listen to the community on the wikiproject you are helping". On both smnwp and sewp, we recently had team members who decided to help out by deleting what they had identified as broken redirects. With the first member to do so, we interacted with them and explained why we had reverted their edits and a nice dialogue ensued. This left a really good impression of SWMT and was refreshing.
A short while later a new member of SWMT comes and deletes the same exact pages on one of these two wps, but still has not interacted with the community. Later on, they moved on to the other wp and did the same thing. This definitely did not leave a good impression of what this team does to help out.
I would assume that the se and smn language communities are not the only ones on this team's monitoring list who have had more than enough experience with this latter type of "we have decided this is in your best interest because you do not know what is good for you" offline over the centuries. I do not assume that team members would realize the enormity of the intergenerational damage that that type of behaviour has left on many minority language communities, so please listen as it is crucial that you do. Work with and listen to the community on the wikiproject you are helping, especially when they say no, don't do that. Thank you. Yupik (talk) 12:18, 13 January 2023 (UTC)