Matthew Trump wrote:
Thanks for the link.
A strong majority of the voters would prefer that the
attribute be
removed for the English Wikipedia.
I'm reporting this knowing that it's up the developers to implement
the will of the community.
I think it's disingenuous to speak of "the will of the community" when
it's very clear from reading the comments on the vote page that "the
will of the community" is deeply divided. There are distinct positions,
both with very strong support, based on incompatible premises:
A: Wikipedia *should* reward good sites
B: Wikipedia is not obligated to "reward" anybody at all
A: Wikipedia should reward *good* sites
B: Wikipedia is obligated to remain neutral, and must not make
judgements on who should be "rewarded"
A: Spam is a lower priority than rewarding quality web resources; we
already weed out spam relatively well
B: Spam's a big problem and only going to get worse as time goes on, and
rewarding spammers' web sites probably isn't what you had in mind
Clearly an all-or-nothing toggle isn't going to satisfy anybody, much
less everybody. So "implementing the will of the community", if it is to
mean anything, must mean something *other* than turning a toggle off or
leaving it on.
What do you suggest?
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)