[WikiEN-l] Slipping quality as Wikipedia gets bigger (formerlyCan you trust Wikipedia?)

[Poor, Edmund W]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Magnus Manske [mailto:magnus.manske at web.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 3:56 AM
> To: English Wikipedia
> Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Slipping quality as Wikipedia gets 
> bigger (formerlyCan you trust Wikipedia?)
> 
> 
> Well, as the author of said feature, I've been asking for a 
> long time what's the holdup. I'm fairly certain it is, at the 
> very least, ready for the planned test phase. I keep asking 
> people what should be fixed, but so far (that is, in the last 
> few month) noone could tell me the reason it remains turned off.
> 
> If parts of it are broken or not up to MediaWiki standard or 
> Evil(tm) in some other important way, please, PLEASE tell me 
> so I can fix it.
> 
> Should I backport it from CVS HEAD to some other branch? 
> Which one? Anything!
> 
> So far, I've been mostly ignored.
> 
> Magnus

Please put this feature into effect immediately! If we don't like it, we
can always turn it off afterwards. But we will NEVER know if thousands
of Wikipedians will like it if we wait for an overwhelming clamor on
this mailing list.

Ed Poor