On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:08, Mark Williamson
wrote:
Uhhm... {{sofixit}}...
You could fix it very easily if:
- You make Wikipedia more attractive for experts, academics, scientists
- You make sure no article gets forgotten by encouraging people to concentrate
on their own articles, instead of editing here and there in the whole wiki
- You allow these people to put their names and biographies in the articles
they write
- You help these people collect some donations from their readership.
Wikimedia Foundation collects some donations for the servers, but it could
also give some of it to the editors, too.
- You make the articles to have versions, and have a "frozen" (protected)
article in the mainspace, so that new contributions (which may be vandalism
or whatever) go to an "under construction" version.
In our projects, such as
http://www.nerdypc.org and
http://www.adapedia.org
(now being migrated to better software), we are trying to find ways to
implement these ideas. You can read some preliminary analysis for our IT wiki
at
http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Editing_process
The first, of course. The second, maybe. Depends on how well it jives
with [[Wikipedia:Ownership of articles]]. The third, hell will freeze
over before we do that.