-----Original Message----- From: The Cunctator [mailto:cunctator@kband.com] Sent: 06 November 2003 16:02 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Rampant Deletionism
[snip contents of several of the sep11 victim pages]
If those are the best examples to be found, I think the goals of Wikimedia would be best served by having all those pages on the memorial wiki and not on the en.wikipedia as well. Keeping two copies around sucks up precious maintenance resources (in terms of keeping both copies up-to-date with one another) and creates endless debate about the encyclopedicness of the subjects.
What are we and our users losing my having this content at sep11 only, linked-to wherever necessary in the other Wikimedia sites. Seems like the wikipedia enjoys unnecessary superior status to the Wikimedia sites sometimes
Pete www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Pcb21
Peter Bartlett wrote:
Keeping two copies around sucks up precious maintenance resources (in terms of keeping both copies up-to-date with one another)
I think this is not the right way to think about "maintenance resources". Volunteers aren't employees, so we can't tell them "Oh, the management committee has determined that our quality control goals are best met if we focus on activity X, so do that, even though I know activity Y is a lot more fun."
Volunteers who want to keep both copies up-to-date want to do that. We can't re-assign them to something else we think is more productive.
and creates endless debate about the encyclopedicness of the subjects.
Well, that much is true! ;-)
--Jimbo