On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Kelly Martin wrote:
There are already a lot of SWGs on Wikipedia, with
varying degrees of
organization; many WikiProjects qualify as such. However, both the
automation and the sense of group responsibility is not currently
present, and needs to be cultivated. We need these people to feel
personally responsible for the quality of all of the articles in their
SWG.
This is a response to the scaling problem. The English Wikipedia's
community has grown too large to function organically the way it used
to three years ago. It is my belief that breaking it up into multiple
subject-oriented communities will help to combat the scaling problem:
the members of the SWG will all know one another and are far more
likely to remain collegial and productive with one another. A SWG
that gets too large can be subdivided further, which means this
provides an ongoing solution to the scaling problem, not just a
one-time fix.
This is already happening where is needed. Trying to impose this on
the whole of en.wiki would be a mistake. Let it grow organically. If
there are people that want to get together and form an SWG, nothing
is stopping them. Should we encourage them to form one of they do not
feel like, of course not. If there is something we need less is
bureaucracy. Personal responsibility cannot be neither policed nor
encouraged by rules.
-- Jossi