User:Aditya Kabir/Wikilove
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| Erotic love |
| Platonic love |
| Familial love |
| Puppy love |
| Romantic love |
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| Unrequited love |
| Problem of love |
| Celibacy |
| Sexuality |
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| Valentine's Day |
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[edit] What is love?
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 have a wide variety of intended meanings. Romantic love is seen as a deep, ineffable feeling of intense and tender attraction shared in passionate or intimate attraction and intimate interpersonal and sexual relationships.[2] Love can also be conceived of as Platonic love,[3] religious love,[4] familial love, and, more casually, great affection for anything considered strongly pleasurable, desirable, or preferred, including activities and foods.[5][2] 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.
Psychology depicts love as a cognitive and social phenomenon. Psychologist Robert Sternberg formulated a triangular theory of love and argued that love has 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 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.[6] The term applies aptly to all variations of connections within interpersonal relationships, social networks, economic nexuses, political ties, etc. The term male bonding refers to bonding between males through shared activities excluding females or the formation of a close personal relationship between men; for example: "the rituals known as male bonding do not necessarily involve drinking beer together".[7] The analog concept female bonding, although less frequently used, refers to the formation of a close personal relationship between women.[8]
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.[9][10] In this direction, in the fields of sociology, behavioral psychology, and evolutionary psychology, with specific reference to intimate relationships or romantic relationships, 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.[11] In a colloquial sense, it is often intuited that people can have either good chemistry or bad chemistry together. Other related terms are team chemistry, a phrase often used in sports, and business chemistry, as between two companies.[12] Recent developments in neurochemistry have begun to shed light on the nature of the "chemistry of love", in terms of measurable changes in neurotransmitters such as oxytocin, serotonin, and dopamine.
- Further information: Love (religious views) and Love (cultural views)
[edit] What is WikiLove?
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.
If we keep this common goal, this 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.
- Further information: Wikipedia:Wikilove from the press
[edit] Cabal? There is no cabal
An alternative way to foster internal and intrinsic motivation in people is through the "three C's": Collaboration, Content, and Choice.[13]
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.
- 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.[14]
- Clique - an informal and restricted social group formed by people who share common interests, which are often associated with teenagers.
[edit] Awards
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| Wikipedia 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.[15]
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,[16] 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
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Plenty barnstars to go around
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- Wikipedia:Barnstars
- Wikipedia:Personal user awards
- Strange awards: Husond's gifts
- Sweet awards: Riana's gifts
- Create-your-own Award: Wikipedia:Award templates
- 16 pages of archived award proposals... more on the way
- There are plenty resources to give away as awards on the commons
- Other gifts: A smile, another smile, a rose and cookies
[edit] See also
Rule 02: Make love, not money
Rule 03: Assume good faith
Rule 04: Assume that assumption
- Hallowed be thy name
- Will you be my valentine?
- The Cabal of WikiPeace
- List of cabals
- The real cabal
- WikiCrime and WikiHate
- Ethic of reciprocity
- Record of a complete failure in Wikilove
- Wikipedia:On assuming good faith
- Wikipedia:Assume bad faith
- Assume Bad Faith from Meta
- Megalomaniac point of view
- Instruction creep
- Soft Security
[edit] References
- ^ Oxford Illustrated American Dictionary (1998) + Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary (2000).
- ^ a b http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/love
- ^ Kristeller, Paul Oskar (1980). Renaissance Thought and the Arts: collected essays. Princeton University. ISBN 0691020108.
- ^ Mascaró, Juan (2003). The Bhagavad Gita. Penguin Classics. ISBN 0140449183. (J. Mascaró translator)
- ^ 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."
- ^ Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary [CD-ROM] © 2000.
- ^ WordNet ® 2.0, © 2003 Princeton University [www.dictionary.com]
- ^ www.thefreedictionary.com - keyword: "female bonding".
- ^ Bowlby, John (1990). The Making and Breaking of Affectional Bonds. Routledge. ISBN 0415043263.
- ^ Vaughan, Diane (1986). Uncoupling - Turning Points in Intimate Relationships. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-679-73002-8.
- ^ Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia Premium Edition (2006).
- ^ Williams, Scott. (2002). "Managing Team Chemistry." - Leaderletter, Wright State University
- ^ Alfie Kohn, Punished by Rewards
- ^ Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 1937
- ^ "The Bogies: Radar nominates the most bogus awards in America", Ken Bensinger, radaronline.com, 12/14/06
- ^ 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}} can help spread Wikilove. There are other ways to spread it as well. So can the flowers - 
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