[WikiEN-l] The promise is "edit this page"

[Poor, Edmund W]

>>Do we want people to try test edits of [[World War II]] rather than 
>>creating
>>[[pancakesMMM!!!]] as a sandbox/test edit.  No we don't.
>
>We don't know that this would be the effect. A great deal of logically 
>plausible human behavior doesn't happen. For example, nothing in a
newspaper 
>vending machine stops someone for paying for one copy and taking
several.

Let's put dpbsmith's insight about the newspaper vending machine on the
wiki somewhere. It's a variation of the "honor system" that can be used
to explain to CRITICS why we are so confident that Wikipedia can be
relied upon. 

It all comes down to trust. Who is worthy of your trust? And how do YOU
decide this?

Uncle Ed