Writing an encyclopedia is the goal, but we must be careful not to kill the golden goose that gave us what we have so far.
I would like prefilled new article templates (presumably an option logged-in editors could switch off) as I outlined on wikien-l:
http://mail.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikien-l/2005-December/034414.html
- and to switch article creation back on for anons on en:.
- The editors of good will can see from the prefill what an article
should be shaped like and write better new articles. 1a. Those it annoys can switch it off. 2. The editors of bad will are just creating login names anyway.
- d.
Exactly. I support article templates, and tools that make Wikipedia more consistent, but all forms of restricting access are anti-wiki. For us liberal Wikipedians, they basically kill off the project from the start.
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