On 4/2/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/1/07, Phil Sandifer Snowspinner@gmail.com wrote:
Why don't we lock new article creation in the main namespace entirely for three months? Or six months? Demand that people fix existing articles.
Any proposal based on an assumption like "people spend X hours a week working on Wikipedia, and if only we could stop them wasting those X hours working on something silly" is flawed.
I don't think that's the assumption. Rather, the assumption is that the people who spend X hours a week *cleaning up* new articles, would be perfectly content cleaning up existing articles instead.
But that leads me to an idea. What if new article creation was still allowed, but only logged in users could see those new articles? This might be enough to put those new articles into a lower-priority bin while still allowing those who *want* to work on them the freedom to do so.
One problem is this really doesn't lend itself to a "three months only" solution. Another problem is who would be allowed move articles into the full public view, and under what rules? If the solution winds up creating more work than the problem, then it's not really a solution. The final problem is, it requires code, albeit probably not that much.
I don't know if I support this idea or not. I'm presenting it as a brainstorming activity, not as a proposal.
Anthony