--- On Mon, 14/3/11, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com> wrote:
From: John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] breaking English Wikipedia apart
To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
<foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Monday, 14 March, 2011, 10:33
Thoughts?
The intention of this proposal, and this thread, is _not_
to improve
our processes/handling of BLPs, however that is one of the
likely
outcomes of splitting BLPs to a separate project.
The intention of this proposal is to split English
Wikipedia into more
than one project, so different editing policies/guidelines
and
administration practices can form.
I proposed BLPs as a candidate for a new project because
they are the
simplest set of pages to define and it is accepted that the
current
structure results in new BLP violations every minute, and
many of
these are not addressed for months. The main
wikipedia project would
still need strong policies to ensure BLP violations can be
dealt with
in articles that are not biographies.
--
John Vandenberg
John, how would your proposal be realized, technically?
I presume BLPs would still be hosted on the same
xx.wikipedia.org site, be
wikilinked to, and so on. Is that correct?
If so, how would the proposed spun-out BLP project, with its own admins and
so on, assume jurisdiction of these articles? Could you explain how you had
envisioned this to work?
A.