[WikiEN-l] Re: The heart of the deletion problem

Mon Dec 12 18:33:00 UTC 2005

Michael Snow wrote:

> And it's very easy to give people the wrong idea when we don't have a 
> final or even a stable version of anything. Considering that Wikipedia 
> has been going for five years, I think we're ready to start. Stable 
> versions, even more than article ratings, are a feature we need. In 
> fact, I think setting up article ratings before stable versions is 
> completely backwards, because it's the stable versions we should be 
> asking people to rate. 

I generally agree with your comments, although this one strikes me as 
backwards.  I see ratings as a way of determining whether an article is 
in fact stable.  If an article must first be judged stable what would be 
the mechanism for making that decision?

The lack of an agreed mechanism for doing that has been a major factor 
in not getting the 1.0 project off the ground.

Ec