[WikiEN-l] Wikiquette "committee"

Wed Oct 29 17:41:27 UTC 2003

From: "Jimmy Wales" <jwales at bomis.com>

> However, and I think that Alex and I agree much more than my rant
> yesterday would suggest, I really want to make sure that our putting
> in place a process does not give rise to anyone thinking that they
> suddenly have new legal rights to edit the Wikipedia website,
> regardless of the wishes of the other users, or regardless of the
> final decision of the Wikimedia Foundation.

As my detailed rant reply to your rant states is that yes, we do agree
and no we are not granting new rights by having an arbitration
type procedure that deals with cranks who are disrupting the
collaoborative nature of the Wikipedias and their communities
of user/volunteers.

Actually I am all for limiting the rights to access to Wikipedia
because that will make it easier for more people to contribute
and will hopefully cut down on the time that those of us who
would like to contribute more seem to be spending on these
policy issues.

Alex756