Magnus Manske wrote:
My guess is that it's an experiment that will turn into a permanent policy change if it turns out to be useful.
But there does not appear to be any actual criteria under which it can be judged to fail. The only way it will be rescinded, basically, is if Jimbo changes his mind about it being a good idea, because there's no way he can be proven wrong about it being a good idea. No one has even informally defined what it would mean for it to be "successful", much less suggested how to measure that.
One possible criterion: The overall number of bad edits on Wikipedia (counting new page creation and edits to existing pages) decreases.
Another one: The overall number of bad edits on Wikipedia not caught within [x] hours (again counting both) decreases.
Is anyone prepared to measure either of these, or some other useful statistic?
-Mark