I'd like to post an interesting article about Wikipedia interactions (preprint):
"The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds" (29 November 2017). arXiv:1712.06414 [cs, stat].
In summary, it says that conflict is unpleasant and drives editors away, but it makes article content better. The authors welcome feedback.
I'm wondering if telling editors that conflict is productive might make it less unpleasant, especially as "I'm wasting my time here" is a frequent reaction to conflict. It would be interesting to do some experiments with different messages and see if they affect retention or productivity. HLHJ (talk) 22:32, 20 January 2019 (UTC)