Jimmy Wales wrote:
One great reason to do all of this is to shake up the cobwebs in our thinking. A lot of our processes are fantastic, organically evolved over time, and shouldn't be changed. But they aren't all perfect and we need to always remain experimental -- it's a wiki after all.
Yes. One thing that pisses me off about Wikipedia is the committee committees to have a vote on having a committee to vote to ascertain consensus on having a committee before you can actually bloody *do* anything.
(Which is one of the things I like about Uncyclopedia: blatant admin fascism! MUWAHAHAHAHA. Excuse me.)
I vaguely recall workplace studies where changing *anything* increased productivity - it wasn't the new setting, it was the fact of change.
So, experiment suggestions so far:
1. Switch off anon article creation - in progress. 2. Prefill text for new article creation. 3. Article Improvement Week. 4. Turn off AFD for (a week/a month/ever).
Any others I missed?
- d.