Andre Engels wrote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:55:55 +0800, John Lee johnleemk@gawab.com wrote:
NSK wrote:
On Tuesday 15 February 2005 02:08, Mark Williamson wrote:
Uhhm... {{sofixit}}...
You could fix it very easily if:
- You make Wikipedia more attractive for experts, academics, scientists
- You make sure no article gets forgotten by encouraging people to concentrate
on their own articles, instead of editing here and there in the whole wiki
- You allow these people to put their names and biographies in the articles
they write
- You help these people collect some donations from their readership.
Wikimedia Foundation collects some donations for the servers, but it could also give some of it to the editors, too.
- You make the articles to have versions, and have a "frozen" (protected)
article in the mainspace, so that new contributions (which may be vandalism or whatever) go to an "under construction" version.
In our projects, such as http://www.nerdypc.org and http://www.adapedia.org (now being migrated to better software), we are trying to find ways to implement these ideas. You can read some preliminary analysis for our IT wiki at http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Editing_process
The first, of course. The second, maybe. Depends on how well it jives with [[Wikipedia:Ownership of articles]]. The third, hell will freeze over before we do that.
Which is a pity, because it means we willfully go against the GNU/FDL.
Signing people's names on articles? You've got to be kidding me. They get the history and their own user page already, and that's enough. We don't need to be cluttering our articles with this.
John Lee ([[en:User:Johnleemk]])