On 22/05/07, Will Beback
<will.beback.1(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The real problem we have on Wikipedia with school
articles, in my
opinion, is the amount of vandalism they receive relative to the number
of editors repairing them. Since school-aged kids are a main source of
vandalism this isn't a surprise. However since this vandalism often
takes the form of derogatory remarks about living people it's a serious
matter. Reducing the number of school articles which aren't being
watched would help.
I've said it before and I'll say it again - we need to think about
maintainability in a concrete sense as well as "notability" in an
abstract one. If an article is going to need maintenance, but it isn't
going to get it, it becomes a net liability to the project...
What is adequate maintenance. When I recently went through my
district's schools to see what was happening (39 elementary + 11
secondary) the two instances of what might be considered anything like
traditional vandalism were both at high schools. I suspect that
elementary schools may be less vandal prone than secondaries, because
the kids there are just not on the internet as much.
Ec