On 04/04/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Kirill Lokshin wrote:
But the key issue, I think, is simply this: prescriptive collaboration models do not, as a general rule, work on Wikipedia. The vast majority of editors make content contributions on topics of their choice; if they're told that they *must* work on article X, they'll simply refuse. This proposal, basically, assumes that there's a supply of editors somewhere willing to do work (which happens to be "not fun" in a major way) according to some central bureaucracy's dictates; in my experience, there simply isn't such a supply available.
Prescriptive collaboration is an oxymoron.
It depends on the level of prescription. This proposal never required that an individual editor *must* work on any article or any groups of articles. It attempted to match editors to areas of Wikipedia needing work and contribute their time by fulfilling ticket requests.
This is not in any conflict with collaboration.