"unwiki" means very different things to very
different people. To me, personally, "wiki" is
purely a TECHNICAL term, not a philosophy.
Wiki is a philosophy, a very radical one in which
websites are open to
contributions by complete strangers. Thus
"unwiki"
is anything which tends
to make things less open (like listing articles
for deletion without
providing notice on the article itself).
That is YOUR assertion. Not everyone agrees with
you. And furthermore, not
everyone who shares your idea that "wiki" is a
philosophy may agree with your
definition of this "philosophy".
I think that wiki is a philosophy, but it is only a
philosophy of complete imperminance that comes
directly from the unusual development model. In a
wiki, there is no standard procedure, no unnecessary
"due process". If someone wants to rewrite an article,
they rewrite it. If someone else doesn't like it, they
change it. There is no need to discuss everything. If
an anon comes along and blanks 20 pages, it is simply
undone. There is no standard procedure for all of
this, nor is one necessary. If we wanted to ban anon
contributers so this didn't happen, we could, but we
aren't. If someone uploaded pornography to wikipedia
(real porn, not for educational purposes) we'd just
delete it. There'd be no discussion, no boilerplate
picture put there, only helpful and progressive
development, which is, in this case, deletion. I think
the wiki philosophy, or rather lack thereof, is that
you can do whatever you want within the technical
means of the wiki.
LDan
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