[Foundation-l] Jimbo's fantasy...

Tue Dec 6 19:41:28 UTC 2005

Daniel Mayer wrote:

>A monthly clean-up holiday (at least for the English Wikipedia)… I think that is an absolutely
>wonderful idea! We could kick it off with a whole week in, heck, the whole month of January. After
>that it could be the 15th of each month. 
>
>At the very least it will give us a chance to catch a breath; keeping up with all the vandalistic
>and dodgy edits to articles on en.wikipedia’s recent changes was like trying to take a sip from a
>fire hose. I thus stopped even looking at RC some time ago.
>
>I hope some good will come from this whole embarrassing episode. 
>
Let's not blow the incident out of proportion. Similar incidents will 
happen in the future because "Shit happens." This is not a perfect 
world. We need to act in response without overacting.

>Our entire history thus far has
>emphasized quantity over quality. It is high time that some balance is put into that equation. We
>could also use these clean-up holidays to reflect on how better to keep a good balance. Team
>editing works pretty well, but team patrol is very hard to do so far. We need better tools to
>enable that.  
>
Personally I like to reflect on things as they arise, and not wait for a 
high holiday to do it. Do we need to hire a good muezzin to announce the 
holiday?

Ec