Thanks for sharing your thoughts. "Good faith" is hard to put a finger on, but you know it when you see it! I will never forget reading a bug report in Python where a senior developer replied to a junior developer: (roughly) "That's a good point. I didn't think of that. Your idea is better." I had never seen that level of humbleness in other open source projects that I follow.
I bet the top Wiki editors don't think there is an issue. That is the hard part. How do you get the people with the most vested interest accept change?
That is a good point you raise and there are no cookie cutter answers I think personally. Changing a culture is always far harder than to start. People’s behavior is already set (think of the backwards brain bicycle TED talk)
So you need a new synthesis in a dialectic system of two opposing wills. Like you say, how do you get people to accept less? Only if you can make them see what you are seeing, and if they can see different points of view. For some this is impossible I find, depending on character and circumstances. Also can you make them see that their behavior is detrimental in the long run? Or that they might have their heart in the right place (they care about the subject) but it is forced?
But yeah, the ability or willingness to see through other eyes is definitely “good faith” to me. You still don’t always have to agree, you don’t have to become a hivemind. But knowing that your ideas or critiques are heard, echoed makes you feel part of the whole, just being seen or heard makes a world of difference I think.
I bet the top Wiki editors don't think there is an issue. That is the hard part. How do you get the people with the most vested interest accept change?