Message: 3 Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:13:13 +1000 From: Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales post on Huffington Post To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org Message-ID: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:

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If however the actual result is a shift in editing cultural attitudes (measured for instance in the rate of non-BLP articles being semied or protected after the introduction of FR) towards a stricter and more defensive attitude towards addition of new information, there clearly are metrics to evaluate that, and that will be proof of the other sort.

Yep. I, for one, am quite apprehensive about what this will mean in practice. My real fear is that anonymous editors will become even more marginalised and the rate of new editors will slow further. However, I have no concrete basis for thinking this, so I'm keeping quiet about it.

Steve

I'm quite keen both on the idea of allowing IP edits on semiprotected articles via flagged revisions; and on the idea of protecting more biographies of living people either by semi protection or flagged revisions. But I agree that we will need to be able to analyze what happens.

I'm pretty sure that the number of semi protected articles is on the rise; So to meaningfully measure the impact of flagged revisions we will need to compare the number of articles protected this way against a projection of how many would have become protected via semi protection if flagged revisions had not come along. We also need baseline figures for the number of edits on semiprotected pages that are currently achieved by IP editors requesting them on talkpages, against the future number of IP edits to currently semi-protected articles that will be flagged as OK by other users and go live.

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