On 8/28/06, dmehkeri@swi.com dmehkeri@swi.com wrote:
Will this fragment Wikipedia? Will there be different rules for Japanese, French, Polish, Dutch.... and the rest?
It seems to me there already are. I don't believe fr.wp restricts anon page creation, for instance.
Each Wikipedia makes its own rules. Es, for example, prohibits image uploads entirely. While certain policies are non-negotiable (NPOV, mainly), each project is free, as it must be, to come up with the policies and procedures that work for it.
The German experiment is very interesting and I hope it works for them. I'm sure the results of their experimentation will lead to much discussion within the English community as to whether English should use this feature once the devs make it available to us. But I think that discussion should mainly wait until (a) an implementation exists (right now, it's not ready for prime time; Brion has some more work to do on it) and (b) we have some data from the Germans on what does and doesn't work in their community, so we can not waste time discussing in a vacuum.
Kelly