Jimmy Wales wrote:
Another class of pages for which total deletion makes
sense would be
for legitimate page titles with totally nonsensical content. A total
deletion is better than a page clearing, because it restores the ?
link on pages that may mention this page, thus alerting us that it
needs fixing.
For example, a couple of days ago I noticed that we didn't have a page
on Colin Powell, while reading a page about the current effort. If
there had been a blank page there, I would not have noticed it, and we
wouldn't have that content now.
That can be solved. Software must be changed so that blank pages
have a ? link.
2) Are the
deletions tracked (even if not available to the public) in
any way? Is there any way that it can be determined which administrator
has deleted a file (eg: usernames, IP addresses)? If not, is there any
reason why there shouldn't be in the future?
I think it is obvious that pretty much nothing should be done in secret.
of Wikipedia, which is probably Bomis'
biggest asset.
Well, not really. Wikipedia traffic is extraordinarily tiny compared
to our other properties. Nonetheless, I do think Wikipedia is
exciting and promising.
I think the idea was that, in this project, the biggest asset of
Bomis is the "Wikipedia reputation". Not the content, but the
reputation. I would say that there are two important assets for
Bomis here:
1 - wikipedia reputation
2 - wikipedia community
That's what Bomis must preserve. Others can use the same content
to build a similar project, but they would not have the same
reputation and the same community.
--
joão
http://www.nonio.com