[WikiEN-l] "the experiment" - did it work?

Tue Jun 20 23:14:44 UTC 2006

On 6/21/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
> It is not clear to me that it did.  I would love for us to have some
> serious analysis of that.
>
> My sense is that the number of articles created by unknown people is
> about the same, but that they now sign up for an account first.  This is
> not helpful, because whereas before we had the rough indicator of "ip
> number equals newbie" (imperfect), we now have less of an indicator.
>

Still got it you just use redlinks instead


>
> What I would prefer to see, in the long run, is a replacement of locking
> and controls by flagging and visibility.  This is core to what I think
> works: not gatekeeping, but accountability.

Uninforcable

>
> The issue we have, but so far only in English Wikipedia, and to a lesser
> degree elsewhere, I think, is that the sheer volume of crap that the new
> pages patrollers have to deal with means that every day we are making
> major mistakes that could be dealt with better through openness than
> through controls.  (Openness in this case meaning: visibility and
> accountability.)
>


Alrewadyy pretty open when it comes to deletion. The deletion logs are
there and nothing to stop you asking the person who deleted it why.
-- 
geni