[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales post on Huffington Post

[Steve Bennett]

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
<cimonavaro at gmail.com> wrote:
> If however the actual result is a shift in editing cultural
> attitudes (measured for instance in the rate of non-BLP
> articles being semied or protected after the introduction
> of FR) towards a stricter and more defensive attitude
> towards addition of new information, there clearly are
> metrics to evaluate that, and that will be proof of the
> other sort.

Yep. I, for one, am quite apprehensive about what this will mean in
practice. My real fear is that anonymous editors will become even more
marginalised and the rate of new editors will slow further. However, I
have no concrete basis for thinking this, so I'm keeping quiet about
it.

Steve