On Mar 30, 2007, at 10:14 PM, Kirill Lokshin wrote:
And then what? The key element of this proposal seems to be that these SWGs (let us call them "WikiProjects") would somehow magically start sourcing everything with nary a complaint. The fundamental underpinning theory here is that (a) occasional editors can be forced to join project en masse and (b) project members can be forced to do sourcing work en masse; in my experience, neither of those reflects reality. The more likely reaction is that many of the active projects will simply move somewhere else, and the rest will fail to actually accomplish anything substantial.
I agree... What I find peculiar about this proposal is that it seems disassociated from the reality of day-to-day editing and the current culture in en.wiki. One thing has become clear to me: as Wikipedia becomes bigger and bigger, the ability to make any major changes will be greatly diminished, in particular in issues related to the social structure of the project.
-- Jossi