Decisions at Wikipedia are not based a vote.  The majority support Pending Changes and insufficient reasons have been put forwards by those who wish to see it quashed. I would like to thank Erik Moeller for the difficult discussion he has made. It is impossible to make everyone happy sometimes. I support PC for a number of reasons including. 1) Concerns are voiced both by academia and our readership regarding Wikipedia's reliability. Pending changes addresses some of these concerns. Thus there is a good chance that "pending changes" will not only increase our readership but the number of people who edit. No one wants to put in the work to create something good or excellent just to have it vandalized and left un-repaired. 2) Vandals like to see their work go "live". Pending changes stops this and will thus potentially decrease the entire volume of vandalism.  Most vandals will not be willing to pit in the effort to get around these measures.

3) We will have a tool to allow the world to seamlessly contribute to a greater part of Wikipedia. Instead of semi protecting some pages ( and thus making it difficult for IPs to contribution ) we can use PC to make Wikipedia more open per our founding principles.

I support PC for a number of reasons including. 1) Concerns are voiced both by academia and our readership regarding Wikipedia's reliability. Pending changes addresses some of these concerns.

German Wikipedia has had pending changes implemented *globally*, in all articles, for several years now. Unlike en:WP, where numbers of active editors have dropped significantly since 2007, numbers of active editors in de:WP have remained stable: http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaDE.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm

Decisions at Wikipedia are not based a vote.  The majority support Pending Changes and insufficient reasons have been put forwards by those who wish to see it quashed. I would like to thank Erik Moeller for the difficult discussion he has made. It is impossible to make everyone happy sometimes. I support PC for a number of reasons including. 1) Concerns are voiced both by academia and our readership regarding Wikipedia's reliability. Pending changes addresses some of these concerns. Thus there is a good chance that "pending changes" will not only increase our readership but the number of people who edit. No one wants to put in the work to create something good or excellent just to have it vandalized and left un-repaired. 2) Vandals like to see their work go "live". Pending changes stops this and will thus potentially decrease the entire volume of vandalism.  Most vandals will not be willing to pit in the effort to get around these measures. 3) We will have a tool to allow the world to seamlessly contribute to a greater part of Wikipedia. Instead of semi protecting some pages ( and thus making it difficult for IPs to contribution ) we can use PC to make Wikipedia more open per our founding principles. -- James Heilman MD, CCFP-EM, B.Sc. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l