User:Aditya Kabir/Wikilove

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This user has been loved!
This user has been loved!


Rule 01: Make love, not sexRule 02: Make love, not moneyRule 03: Assume good faithRule 04: Assume that assumptionRule 05: Forgive and forget
Rule 01: Make love, not sex
Rule 02: Make love, not money
Rule 03: Assume good faith
Rule 04: Assume that assumption
Rule 05: Forgive and forget
“ Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. ”

—Jesus, (Matthew 7:12, Luke 6:31, Luke 10:25)
Love thy Chinese.
Love thy Chinese.

Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection or profound oneness.[1] Depending on context, love can be conceived of as great affection for anything considered strongly pleasurable, desirable, or preferred, including activities and foods.[2][3] This diverse range of meanings in the singular word love is often contrasted with the plurality of Greek words for "love", reflecting the concept's depth, versatility, and complexity.

Love thy newbies
Love thy newbies

Love is a cognitive and social phenomenon with three different components: Intimacy, Commitment, and Passion. Intimacy is a form by which two people can share secrets and various details of their personal lives. Intimacy is usually shown in friendships and romantic love affairs. Commitment, on the other hand, is the expectation that the relationship is going to last forever. The last and most common form of love is sexual attraction and passion. Passionate love is shown in infatuation as well as romantic love.

Love thy cabal
Love thy cabal

WikiLove is a term that refers to a general spirit of collegiality and mutual understanding. It was coined over time on the Wikipedia:Mailing lists. Because people coming from radically different perspectives work on Wikipedia together – religious fundamentalists and secular humanists, Nazis and Communists, etc. – it is easy for discussions to degenerate into flamewars. But we are all here for one reason: we love accumulating, ordering, structuring, and making freely available what knowledge we have in the form of an encyclopedia of unprecedented size. Wikipedia is not just another discussion forum — it is a project to describe and collect what we know.

We bond spontaneously. No need for a cabal
We bond spontaneously. No need for a cabal

Love is closely related to bonding, the process or formation of a close personal relationship, as between a parent and child, especially through frequent or constant association.[4] The term applies aptly to all variations of connections within interpersonal relationships, social networks, economic nexuses, political ties, etc.

A powerful way to foster internal and intrinsic motivation in people is through the "three C's": Collaboration, Content, and Choice.[5]

If we keep the common goal, the love of knowledge, in mind, if we concentrate on achieving a neutral point of view even when it is difficult, if we try to actually understand what the other side has to say, then we can reach the state of "WikiLove". If we fail to achieve WikiLove, this will only mean that the encyclopedia and its mission as a whole will suffer. Constant flamewars drive contributors away, biased articles drive readers away, and both harm our reputation in the long term.

In a chemical sense, a chemical reaction between two people involves either the formation of a bond or dissolution of a bond, or some combination thereof, and the energetics or psychodynamics associated with this process.[6][7] In this direction, in the fields of sociology, behavioral psychology, and evolutionary psychology, interpersonal chemistry is a reaction between two people or the spontaneous reaction of two people to each other, especially a mutual sense of attraction or understanding.[8] Other related terms are team chemistry, a phrase often used in sports, and business chemistry, as between two companies.[9]

People will keep bonding in free forming bands
  • Connectors - people in a community who know large numbers of people and who are in the habit of making introductions.
  • Homophily, i.e., love of the same, is the tendency of individuals to associate and "bond" with similar others.
  • Gemeinschaft - a spontaneous organic social relationship characterized by strong reciprocal "bonds" of sentiment and kinship with in a common tradition.[10]
  • Clique - an informal and restricted social group formed by people who share common interests, which are often associated with teenagers.
Further information: Love (religious views), Love (cultural views), and Wikipedia:Wikilove from the press

[edit] Cabal? There is no cabal


Has stories about this:
New group aims to promote Wiki-Love
Esperanza organization disbanded after deletion discussion

Love makes the world go round
Love makes the world go round

Esperanza (Spanish for hope) was a Wikipedia project founded on August 12, 2005 to promote WikiLove to encourage a sense of community. It was the belief of Esperanza that a friendly, supportive community within Wikipedia would help the encyclopedia by keeping editors happy, productive, and on the project.

Esperanza was governed by a charter, which stipulated an Advisory Council with staggered terms, as well as an Administrator General who was selected by the council to lead the project. Amendments to the charter could be made through week-long discussions held on Wikipedia talk:Esperanza. This was criticized as being heavily bureaucratic for Wikipedia, which is not a bureaucracy. It was first nominated for deletion in November 2006. A month later, Esperanza was once again nominated for deletion. After long discussion, it was ultimately decided that Esperanza was to be decentralized and disbanded. On Wikipedia talk:Esperanza there is a list of now-independent projects though which some of Esperanza programs still survive.

[edit] Awards
Wikipedia Awards
Wikipedia Awards
Barnstars on Wikipedia
Awards by WikiProject
Other related awards
Personal user awards
Order of the Day
Service Awards
Ribbons alternatives
Award templates
Kindness Campaign

Award Center

WikiProject Awards

An award is something given to a person or group of people to recognize excellence in a certain field. Awards are often signified by trophies, titles, certificates, commemorative plaques, medals, badges, pins or ribbons. An award can carry a monetary prize given to the recipient, for instance, the Nobel Prize for contributions to society, or the Pulitzer Prize for literary achievements. An award can also simply be a public acknowledgment of excellence, without a tangible token or a prize. An award can be completely bogus in some cases.[11]

It is the custom to reward vigorous Wikipedia contributors for their hard work and due diligence by awarding them a fitting barnstar, or other award. These awards are part of the Kindness Campaign and are meant to promote Civility and WikiLove. To give the award to someone, just place the image on their talk page, and say why you've given it. Don't hesitate: be bold!

The concept of the barnstar as a Wiki award was created by SunirShah on MeatballWiki, although the actual graphic symbol adopted for this purpose isn't a barnstar at all,[12] it depicts a kind of washer used in conjunction with a tie rod. Barnstars were introduced to Wikipedia in February 2004. Since then, the concept has become ingrained into the Wikipedia culture.

See also: Barnstar image gallery

[edit] Personal User awards

In the Personal User Awards there is a wide range of awards to chose from, from the "Golden Wiki" award, for users who have made outstanding contributions, to the "Son of Jimbo" award, for users with the last name "Wales". So the next time you think a user has made a significant contribution, or basically anything else, why don't you give him/her a reward to show your gratitude?

[edit] Them cost you nothin'

The barnstars are watching you
The barnstars are watching you
Plenty barnstars to go around
Plenty barnstars to go around

[edit] See also

[edit] Dispute resolution

[edit] References

  1. ^ Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary (1998) + Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary (2000).
  2. ^ Casual application of the word love also includes idiomatic expressions and uses with differing connotations. For example, as a sardonic expression of disapproval: "I just love how politicians always make empty promises."
  3. ^ http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/love
  4. ^ Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary [CD-ROM] © 2000.
  5. ^ Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards
  6. ^ Bowlby, John (1990). The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds. Routledge. ISBN 0415043263. 
  7. ^ Vaughan, Diane (1986). Uncoupling - Turning Points in Intimate Relationships. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-679-73002-8. 
  8. ^ Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Premium Edition (2006).
  9. ^ Williams, Scott. (2002). "Managing Team Chemistry." - Leaderletter, Wright State University
  10. ^ Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 1937
  11. ^ "The Bogies: Radar nominates the most bogus awards in America", Ken Bensinger, radaronline.com, 12/14/06
  12. ^ http://www.the-artistic-garden.com/barn-star.html

[edit] Emoticons: spread the love

See also: User:Linuxerist/smileys and User talk:The Transhumanist

{{WikiCookie}} or {{Smile}} can help spread Wikilove. There are other ways to spread it as well. So can the flowers - Image:WikiThanks.png

congratulate confident Image:confused-tpvgames.gif confused Image:cry-tpvgames.gif crying deep trouble friendly
grossed out hurt innocent hysterical indifferent mocking
nasty Image:misc-tpvgames.gif odd, crazy, etc. Image:sad-tpvgames.gif sad Image:shocked-tpvgames.gif shocked skeptical
smile smirking upset very sorry yawning


[edit] Animated Emoticons

Image:Cordialgreetings1x_pix.gif Image:Happy1x_pix.gif Image:Iloveyou1x_pix.gif Image:Hellowoman1x_pix.gif Image:Hugsnkisses1x_pix.gif Image:Nihao1x_pix.gif