[WikiEN-l] Neo-nazis to attack wikipedia

Mon Feb 7 12:57:38 UTC 2005

Tony Sidaway (minorityreport at bluebottle.com) [050207 23:54]:
> Deathphoenix said:

> > You'd probably need to have a small team of volunteers willing to act
> > as  moderators for each article (of course, people would be moderating
> > much  more than a single "protected article"). The current
> > {{protected}}  system is good for protecting the article so that only
> > admins can edit  it, so if the moderators were admins, that would work.

> Create content moderators and you create a point of weakness.  The best
> safeguard of content is verifiability.  The existing dispute resolution
> process can deal with people who repeatedly make unverifiable edits.

But we *must* kill the wiki in order to save it. Else all the editors will
leave in disgust and Britannica will not take us seriously. Possibly we
should vote on it.

- d.