[WikiEN-l] My rant

[Rick]

Yet again another attempt to make Wikipedia into something completely different.  Why do you keep doing this?  You are not going to succeed in getting the project corrupted into your version of reality.
 
RickK

NSK <nsk2 at wikinerds.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:09, Christopher Mahan wrote:
> I'm pissed, and I want to rant. (you've been warned)

I understand you completely; the problem in Wikipedia is that authors start 
writing without discussing, planning and organising their efforts. In my wiki 
projects I will try to follow a different approach, and I believe Wikipedia 
should consider a change in its attitudes. Here is my design:
1. The wiki is just a place to store articles. Discussions in the wiki are 
prohibited.
2. The Talk: pages are renamed Test: pages and all the writing and 
collaborative writing happens there.
3. Non-Test pages (i.e. the real articles) are protected and only admins can 
edit them.
4. The authors are using a mailing list, a phpBB forum and a special 
collaboration platform to discuss and decide how to write the article. An 
example of a very good collaboration platform is phpCollab.
5. There are Article Maintainers who check for copyright violations and check 
the references, et cetera.
6. Every article is developed in a software-like fashion, i.e. there are 
versions and when the mains (maintainers) approve an article it will be 
checked by the admins. The admins then publish the article in a non-Test page 
(i.e. the main namespace) and give to it a unique version number such as 1.4.

You can learn more about this design at 
http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Editing_process

Some additional info about versions exists at 
http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Article_versions

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