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

[JAY JG]

>From: "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com>
>
> > -----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.

If it does anything to further degrade Wikipedia's performance, I'd 
recommend not putting it in.

Jay.