[WikiEN-l] Re: April 1st 2006, IRC, the mailing list, and the Cabal

Sun Apr 3 00:06:44 UTC 2005

That would be undermining the very point that promotes Wikipedia, though.
"Anyone can edit" is false if anons can't edit. Theres a lot of people who
would just walk out if that became true.

I think making it read-only for cleanup on April Fool's is a bit of a bad
idea. Ideal case is the Pope - If it was read only, the site would be saying
he is in critical condition, and many other events would be unattended. Not
long ago Wikipedia was read-only for just 9 hours or so, and that was far
too long a wait for many.

Few would enjoy seeing 48 hours of reading Wikipedia, and nothing else.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sj" <2.718281828 at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 1:02 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: April 1st 2006, IRC, the mailing list,and the
Cabal

> That's actually a good idea.  And we may as well make it read-only for
> anons all the time; they often have no intention of cleaning up after
> themselves.  Think of the massive effort that goes into monitoring
> their edits -- just for the sake of 'community' -- that could go into
> writing quality articles.   --sj--
>
> On Apr 2, 2005 11:24 AM, Tim Starling <t.starling at physics.unimelb.edu.au>
wrote:
> > Next year we should switch the wiki to read-only mode for 48 hours and
> > take the opportunity to clean up the database schema a bit. Remember
> > it's not just admins messing with articles, there's plenty of anonymous
> > users too, and not all of them are careful to clean up the next day.
>
> ps - I hear there are five very powerful Japanese-built multi-lingual
> Internet-crawling robots now out of business since the upgrade to the
> new "self-cleaning" Internet v2... maybe we can hire them.
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