[WikiEN-l] Neo-nazis to attack wikipedia

Mon Feb 7 01:53:22 UTC 2005

JAY JG wrote:
> Wikipedia would not be able to handle 43 Vogels.  Even 10 would tax its 
> current resources and structure.  If 1 in 4000 is intelligent, coherent, 
> and motivated, Wikipedia is in trouble.

I don't think so.  Remember my constant mantra: the purpose of our
community is to write a high quality neutral encyclopedia.  Our
openness is a means to that end, and a very excellent one we should
respect highly.

But if 43 Vogels show up, I'll personally ban them all if necessary,
and that's that.  That's not likely to be necessary, because we're
pretty good at devising community-oriented solutions to such problems.

Quality is what we're all about.  Getting it right is what we're all
about.

I've been speaking lately about some research that I've done about how
wikipedia is actually written.  It isn't the product of millions of
people writing one sentence each: it is the work of a small (in the
hundreds) and mostly close-knit community.  This community must be
(and _will be_) respected in our values of NPOV, quality, getting it
right.  And if some random Nazis have to be removed, then so be it.

No one within this community should ever think that I respect our
principles of openness more than I respect the community itself.  So I
will not ride the ship of openness to the bottom of the ocean.

--Jimbo