[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales post on Huffington Post

[Charles Matthews]

Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hmm, I feel that Wales' post is kind of at cross-purposes to the meme
> he's trying to defeat:
> 1) Meme: Newbie editors who make edits to random articles will require
> those edits to be approved before going live.
> 2) Rebuttal: Newbie editors will now be able to make edits to
> currently protected articles, albeit with those edits requiring
> approval.
>
>   
It's somewhat oblique, but shrewd enough. Given that WP does operate 
trade-offs of "openness" versus "editorial control", with scary quotes, 
it is to some extent negotiable how these are presented in a PR sense. 
The mainstreamers have spectacularly misinterpreted what is planned 
(briefly, they might as well have said "kids, in future your edits will 
all be routed into this big newsroom of disapproving killjoys"). While 
what is actually going to happen is that the editorial filo pastry will 
get another layer (which we _hope_ will prove light, tasty and 
digestible). And some page protection will be removed.

Charles