Jimmy Wales <jwales(a)bomis.com> writes:
I think that we should eliminate personal pages, but
more importantly,
we should eliminate the notion that personal pages are ones own to do
with as one sees fit.
[...]
But in personal pages, people are getting mad every
day about edits.
That's because they think of themselves as the "authors" of those
pages.
I think it's more the fact that they consider themselves ultimate
judges about the topic -- which is partly true.
I support proposals to move commentary out of the
wiki, but I don't
yet support any *particular* notion of how to do it. A separate
wiki? A separate namespace? There are pros and cons to either, I
think.
Well, the talk namespace already has slightly different rules: it is
common to sign contributions, and contributions from others are not
normally deleted. One could rename that namespace to "meta" and put
Wikipedians there as well.
A seperate namespace will be necessary anyway, sooner or later. Why
should a man named "Bill Clinton" not beceome a Wikipedian. (Well,
that opens another can of worms: (nick)name dupes.)
--
Robbe