On 15 June 2010 04:54, Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
On 15 Jun 2010, at 00:39, Risker wrote:
On 14 June 2010 19:22, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_to_loosen_controls_tonight.ph...
Spotted by Nihiltres.
<groan> The George Bush page is not going to be part of this trial, because there
is
no reasonable chance that the tiny, tiny percentage of useful edits will make up for all the vandalism and BLP violations that will be added. That was possibly the one thing that everyone working on the encyclopedia end
of
the trial came to agreement on very quickly.
Interesting - really? I was really hoping to see this tried to see whether it could work on such an article. Can you link me to the discussion about this, please?
From a media contact point of view: one of the first things the media want are examples where it will be used, which is somewhat of a difficult question to answer when a) the community hasn't made its mind up, and b) even if it has, the community can change its mind at any time. ;-)
I'm actually becoming increasingly concerned that the notion that the [[George W. Bush]] article would be unlocked has to be coming from somewhere within the organization, since it's being repeated in every single article in the press. This is not a good sign.
The objective of this trial isn't to give us good press, it's to persuade the community that this is a useful and viable tool. Sticking it onto an article that will probably get more vandalism in an hour than all the rest of the pending changes articles put together will get in a week is hardly the way to persuade the community that it's a good investment of volunteer time and energy. This extension isn't being sold to the world at large, it's being sold to the community that will have to work with it.
The current planned queue for implementation can be found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Pending_changes/Queue
There are plenty of good sound bites in just the first couple of days (World War I and II, Ronald McDonald, Winston Churchill, Rush Limbaugh) that would have made do quite nicely.
Risker/Anne