On 3/11/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/12/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
Indeed, we should caution against a positive/negative system with visible metrics. What I propose is structured, positive-only social commentary that is not transaction-driven but relationship-driven and is not evaluated numerically.
What problem are we trying to solve exactly?
Problem: Magazine interviews Wikipedia editor and believes his falsely claimed credentials. Solution: Caution media to check any credentials claimed by Wikipedia editors.
That's a good question. I regard someone lying about their credentials on their userpage to be a bad thing, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it a problem. The fact that people apparently knew about this and did nothing about it might be a problem, but I'm not sure it's something that would happen again, and isn't really something that can be solved anyway.
I regard lots of other things as problems, but none of them are sufficiently related to this incident except as an "I told you so".
Anthony