Jimmy Wales wrote:
Exactly. Far too often we have endless a priori
debates about certain
things, debates which lead nowhere because we have no evidence. A
better approach is to be flexible and try things and see what happens,
and proceed thoughtfully based on lessons learned.
Yes, but it would be nice if those experiments were driven by
Wikipedia's needs per se, not by PR. Now this may have some positive
impact on Wikipedia (though I personally doubt it), but the timing sure
looks suspiciously like it was done for PR purposes, so we can say in
response to the current media frenzy of the week that we're "doing
something".
-Mark