[WikiEN-l] Moderated Article Development (was: Wikimediation)

Wed Jul 13 16:48:33 UTC 2005

> -----Original Message-----
> From: steve v [mailto:vertigosteve at yahoo.com] 

> Having no binding authority, and otherwise bogged down
> with a "mutual acceptance" policy (now experimentally
> being torched BTW), the result has been a bit
> disorganized, and slow. 
[snip]
> Then what should the current MC committee do? Oversee
> the open committee? I dont know. Ive suggested an NPOV 
> committee would be useful, which sort of interprets NPOV 
> issues case by case, and makes a centralized reference 
> database for how to approach these cases. Depending on your 
> view of disputes on WP and the disruptiveness of these toward 
> articles and their improvement, then you can say an NPOV 
> committee is either a great thing or waste of time. 

I'm starting some experiments on Moderated Article Development. William
Connolley are trying this (as peers) with climate change. I've also
started
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Price-Anderson_Nuclear_Industries_Inde
mnity_Act/moderated and I hope to start a similar page for Terry
Schiavo.

The rules are:

1. Anyone may take out anything they disagree with - provided 
   they discuss it. (I call this a "text move")
2. Nobody is allowed to revert a text move. (I call this the zero-RR)

Ed Poor