[WikiEN-l] Citizendium on quality

[Grease Monkee]

On Dec 20, 2007 12:38 PM, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Dec 20, 2007 9:53 AM, Grease Monkee <welloiledmachine at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Expanding on this a little more: proposals that reduce transparency and
> > enhance control over individual editors seem to happen with no problema,
> > like checkuser, oversite and the admin irc channel (proposed right here
> on
> > this list).
> >
> > But the really important things like stable versions ...
>
> Checkuser and oversight are also relatively simple things to implement
> technically and aren't used by large numbers of editors.  Also, in
> both cases, what this actually was is that previously if these things
> were required, we had to ask a developer to do them.
>
> I think what you're actually seeing here is that the developers and
> sysadmins are much more motivated to make changes that reduce their
> workload and free them up for more important tasks (understandably,
> since we are very under-manned comparitively)
>
> As to the admin IRC channel, IRC channels don't require any changes to
> Wikipedia itself, since they exist completely outside of it.
>
> -Matt
>

Actually, Matt, the stable version concept I mentioned here didn't involve a
single  new line of code.