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 The only way it will be rescinded, basically, is if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