[WikiEN-l] Civility poll results

[FT2]

I'd be in favor of a "Draft:" namespace, which users could use for drafting
articles. Content to be non-spidered. That way we can tell a user to see if
some other user has started work on a draft already.

This would possibly help collaboration, ensure only credible articles get
mainspaced, yet retain "anyone can edit" and the gradual development of
stubs without pressure to delete.

Thoughts?

FT2


On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Surreptitiousness <
surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com> wrote:

> At some point the arbitration committee is going to have to make tough
> decisions, if only to see exactly where the chips fall. If the
> arbitration committee is sometimes afraid of acting, what hope have we
> got? David brought up the idea of forking again, and maybe that's what
> we need to explore once again, maybe we do need to investigate a fork of
> the project. Tying this into the Guardian article, maybe a fork would
> protect us somewhat from the fears it provokes.  After all, Wikipedia
> was originally a project to write an enecyclopedia for another project.
> Why not investigate establishing a new Wikipedia to write articles for
> us? Alternatively, how about instigating a "standard article" process,
> tag everything in the current database as standard, and then allow new
> articles to be created with a huge template at the top to the effect of
> buyer beware, this article does not meet Wikipedia Standards, and relax
> "some" of the rules on those articles until they lose the template. Nah,
> too radical. I mean, rather than delete articles, we could just
> sub-standardise them.  And at a stroke we'd have an instant defence
> against all those media stories; "but why are you taking it seriously,
> we told you it's a draft".
>
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