That would be undermining the very point that promotes Wikipedia, though. "Anyone can edit" is false if anons can't edit. Theres a lot of people who would just walk out if that became true.
I think making it read-only for cleanup on April Fool's is a bit of a bad idea. Ideal case is the Pope - If it was read only, the site would be saying he is in critical condition, and many other events would be unattended. Not long ago Wikipedia was read-only for just 9 hours or so, and that was far too long a wait for many.
Few would enjoy seeing 48 hours of reading Wikipedia, and nothing else. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sj" 2.718281828@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Sunday, April 03, 2005 1:02 AM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Re: April 1st 2006, IRC, the mailing list,and the Cabal
That's actually a good idea. And we may as well make it read-only for anons all the time; they often have no intention of cleaning up after themselves. Think of the massive effort that goes into monitoring their edits -- just for the sake of 'community' -- that could go into writing quality articles. --sj--
On Apr 2, 2005 11:24 AM, Tim Starling t.starling@physics.unimelb.edu.au
wrote:
Next year we should switch the wiki to read-only mode for 48 hours and take the opportunity to clean up the database schema a bit. Remember it's not just admins messing with articles, there's plenty of anonymous users too, and not all of them are careful to clean up the next day.
ps - I hear there are five very powerful Japanese-built multi-lingual Internet-crawling robots now out of business since the upgrade to the new "self-cleaning" Internet v2... maybe we can hire them. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l