[WikiEN-l] What's wrong with the world?

Sat Aug 6 00:22:14 UTC 2005

As was mentioned in #wikimania on IRC, jimbo IS mistakenly misquoted,
but nobody really knows what he said. He's been requested to debunk
the screwups already.

On 8/5/05, Zachary Harden <zscout370 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> And how can we mark it as even nice? A template could disrupt the page, but
> IMHO, any type of mark on the article page is just asking for trouble. Plus,
> I still do not know how can one define a "done" article on here and how many
> will be protected on a trial basis.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Zachary Harden
> 
> 
> >From: Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca>
> >Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> >To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> >Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] What's wrong with the world?
> >Date: Fri, 05 Aug 2005 17:29:02 -0700
> >
> >Phroziac wrote:
> >
> >>There's nothing wrong with the minority thing, but it is pretty funny.
> >>I completely agree with locking completed articles. Why should they be
> >>edited if they're done?
> >>
> >>
> >A "done" article? There's no such thing.
> >
> >I hope Jimbo's just been misleadingly quoted, personally. I would like to
> >see a system whereby versions of an article can be marked as "nice" so that
> >it's really easy to get to the most recent "nice" version. Perhaps even
> >have the "nice" version be the default one shown to non-logged-in users
> >and/or users who set a preference for that, with the edit link still taking
> >the user to the current version instead. But I think officially permanently
> >locking an article because someone thinks that it's "done" is a
> >tremendously bad idea. Article protection is a very blunt instrument,
> >blunter even than user bans, and I believe using it this way would damage
> >Wikipedia far worse than any vandalism it might prevent.
> 
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