From: Jake Waskett <jake(a)waskett.org>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 01:58:24 +0000
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Neo-nazis to attack wikipedia
Ok, Jimbo, you're right. Let me amend my earlier statement: on the whole, the
system is working, but in a few articles, it is not. Now, the question is
this: what can be done about the problem?
One solution that I favour is to have permanent protection on targetted pages,
and have a nominated admin apply changes that are agreed upon by vote on the
article's talk page.
What do others think?
Jake.
On Monday 07 February 2005 01:48, Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales wrote:
Jake Waskett wrote:
The simple truth is this: if Wiki is to
become a credible, serious encyclopaedia, we *must* maintain NPOV. These
groups *oppose* NPOV.
Yes!
What can be done about it? The present system is
simply *not*
*working*. It'll handle the occasional abuse here and there, but the
day-by-day, determined, and methodical twisting of articles to suit
some activist agenda seems impossible to stop.
I am aware of only 3 instances where this (organized groups trying to
undermine NPOV editing) is a problem: LaRouche-related articles,
circumcision, and this new thing with the stormfront postings and VfD
co-ordination.
I think this is a serious problem, and one which we have long feared.
But we need not overreact. The system *is* working in the main, and
where there are new problems (such as those aptly described by Slim
Virgin in discussion the pseudo-NPOV of the LaRouche edit warriors),
we can be confident in our ability to devise new solutions.
--Jimbo
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