[WikiEN-l] New York Times article

Sat Jun 17 12:32:36 UTC 2006

On 17/06/06, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/17/06, Keith Old <keithold at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > The New York Times has an article on Wikipedia called "
> >  Growing Wikipedia Revises Its 'Anyone Can Edit' Policy
> > http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/17/technology/17wiki.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&th&adxnnl=0&emc=th&adxnnlx=1150543441-Nof7ctx7%20AH77qh5FKXKNw
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
> > Keith Old
>
> since when have admins had "authority to exercise editorial control"?

Well, they have the same latitude for editorial discretion and common
sense we give everybody who isn't banned or being an idiot, and as
admins are - at least in part - selected for a bare minimum of
intelligence, tact, and common sense, then you'd expect them to be
better with the whole "editorial discretion" thing.

It isn't control, but it usually gets a stable solution, so it looks like it.

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- Andrew Gray
  andrew.gray at dunelm.org.uk