On 14 April 2013 14:29, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 14 April 2013 14:21, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
We have Wales to "thank" for the absurd "Articles for Creation" process (Is that still around? I haven't checked in a long time.). Seems to me that constitutes a "significant role in debates over inclusion deletion".
Only by a stretch. I'd call it an argument against top-down intervention. There is no such thing as rescue by magic, and berating someone for failing to do the impossible strikes me as pointless. Pretty much everything that's fucked up about Wikipedia is emergent behaviour of people being a problem, and top-down magic can't possibly scale to fix that. It can cripple it, though.
I'll also note that I suspect opening up article creation to anons again will be impossible within the community - because they actually wanted to lock it down even further, and the Foundation stepped in and said "no, keep it open".
- d.