Blogger’s Code of Conduct at Wikia
Inspired by Tim O’Reilly’s call for a Blogger’s Code of Conduct, we’ve started a draft Code of Conduct on Wikia’s Blogging Wiki. Brad Stone reported on this in the New York Times today in “A Call for Manners in the World of Nasty Blogs“:
“The conversational free-for-all on the Internet known as the blogosphere can be a prickly and unpleasant place. Now, a few high-profile figures in high-tech are proposing a blogger code of conduct to clean up the quality of online discourse.”
“Last week, Tim O’Reilly, a conference promoter and book publisher who is credited with coining the term Web 2.0, began working with Jimmy Wales, creator of the communal online encyclopedia Wikipedia, to create a set of guidelines to shape online discussion and debate.”
The draft is a starting point which may evolve into more than one set of guidelines, with logos that bloggers can use to display which set they aim to follow (like the new buttons developed for the Definition of Free Cultural Works) .
I encourage you to read the draft and join the discussion on the wiki or mailing list. Like all Wikia sites, the Code of Conduct is open to editing and to creation of alternative versions, so please get involved and help us to reach a consensus on what should be included in these guidelines and how we might define “civil behavior” in the blogosphere.
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