Neil Harris wrote:
No, I believe that the core values are that Wikipedia is intended to be/become an encyclopedia, and that it should be free, as in freedom to use and make derivative works (and to fork, if necessary). Freedom to edit is hugely important, but secondary to those core goals.
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:.
1. 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.