On 8/3/06, Magnus Manske <magnus.manske(a)web.de> wrote:
People who follow such a call are often not very
patient. We could have
proected the whole site until the idiot-storm is over. With a big banner
saying so.
That kind of reaction seems like going the wrong way. At the end of
the day, Wikipedia wants to be open, and it wants to grow and develop.
We should look at these "idiot storms" as opportunities to attract new
contributors. It would be cool if we could replace the {{test}}
template with something like "Hey, thanks for the test - we've undone
it now, use the sandbox if you need to test anything else. You
wouldn't happen to know anything about <insert item from requests for
expansion> or <another item> would you? We're short on information on
them!"
You know, obsequiously assuming good faith even when presented with
evidence to the contrary can have an amazing effect on basically
good-hearted people.
Steve