Daniel Mayer wrote:
A monthly clean-up holiday (at least for the English
Wikipedia)… I think that is an absolutely
wonderful idea! We could kick it off with a whole week in, heck, the whole month of
January. After
that it could be the 15th of each month.
At the very least it will give us a chance to catch a breath; keeping up with all the
vandalistic
and dodgy edits to articles on en.wikipedia’s recent changes was like trying to take a sip
from a
fire hose. I thus stopped even looking at RC some time ago.
I hope some good will come from this whole embarrassing episode.
Let's not blow the incident out of proportion. Similar incidents will
happen in the future because "Shit happens." This is not a perfect
world. We need to act in response without overacting.
Our entire history thus far has
emphasized quantity over quality. It is high time that some balance is put into that
equation. We
could also use these clean-up holidays to reflect on how better to keep a good balance.
Team
editing works pretty well, but team patrol is very hard to do so far. We need better tools
to
enable that.
Personally I like to reflect on things as they arise, and not wait for a
high holiday to do it. Do we need to hire a good muezzin to announce the
holiday?
Ec