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

Sat Aug 6 01:45:40 UTC 2005

Seems like a cool idea. But given any "Wikipedia 1.0" 
agenda, and putting aside for a moment the aspects of
being entirely unwiki and oxymoronical, there are a
few general ways that this could take shape AISI:

* Unwikipedia academic fork: Separate parallel wiki
with Google ads and paid academics working on
polishing wikipedia articles. Code would allow for
easy viewing and merging of Wikipedia and Unwikipedia
articles

* Ghost of Nupedia (aka. Nupedia's Monster): On-wiki
institution of Nupedia-style credentialism. Ranking of
academic degrees by type: conservative American Ivy
League institutions first, everyone else second, all
the way down to mail-order degrees from North Korea.

* Perma-Protectionism: Sysops are pruned by
credentialsm (or less so trust), and allowed to
protect and lock pages at will, banning anyone who
even hints at a crackpot theory, poor spelling, or
youthful ignorance.

* Paranoid Web of Trust: People get ranks (in addition
to barnstars) and parade them proudly. Everyone sucks
up to the Board members, and they eventually get
military-style badges made to pin on their ©&™
Wikimedia Nohat-logo sweatshirts.

* PATRIOT ACT : Uniting and Strengthening Wikipedia by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and
Obstruct Trollism Act of 2005

-SV

--- Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Zachary Harden 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.
> 
> Something based on the version rating system that
> almost got enabled in 
> the most recent version of WikiMedia would be best,
> IMO - it's my 
> understanding that the basic code is all there, it
> just needs tweaking 
> and polishing. Trying to kludge something together
> with the existing 
> functions probably wouldn't work well since there's
> no way to attach 
> arbitrary metadata to specific versions of a page.
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