What is the fear of Jimbo's proposed moderation experiment?
All he's saying is that wikiEN-l will be moderated for a little over 2 months, i.e., until March 1, 2003. At that point we will decide whether to unmoderate it, or to continue.
Anyone who wants to participate on a moderated English-language list, to discuss the English Wikipedia, is welcome. All others are still free to post to wikipedia-l which will remain unmoderated. Those who like their scum or slush or whatever unfiltered will still get plenty this way.
What could possibly be wrong with such an experiment?
Ed Poor
On 12/12/02 6:52 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" Edmund.W.Poor@abc.com wrote:
What is the fear of Jimbo's proposed moderation experiment?
All he's saying is that wikiEN-l will be moderated for a little over 2 months, i.e., until March 1, 2003. At that point we will decide whether to unmoderate it, or to continue.
Anyone who wants to participate on a moderated English-language list, to discuss the English Wikipedia, is welcome. All others are still free to post to wikipedia-l which will remain unmoderated. Those who like their scum or slush or whatever unfiltered will still get plenty this way.
What could possibly be wrong with such an experiment?
Some brief answers: It would establish a corrosive policy as status quo. It would imply--and then establish as the baseline reality--that wikipedia-l is useless, a haven of scum and slush. It would create even more divisions in the wikipedia community.
It evokes some of the similar problems with charter schools, tracking, etc.
Ed Poor wrote in part:
Anyone who wants to participate on a moderated English-language list, to discuss the English Wikipedia, is welcome. All others are still free to post to wikipedia-l which will remain unmoderated. Those who like their scum or slush or whatever unfiltered will still get plenty this way.
What could possibly be wrong with such an experiment?
What could be wrong is described in your big paragraph above. People may well go to <wikipedia-l> to discuss [[en:]] specifically, which is not what <wikipedia-l> is for -- we already have enough problems. I am about to make a post in which I consent to trying this experiment, but I think it would work best to combine it with an outlet that sends out an unfiltered version of <wikien-l> -- the Gmane idea sounds like it would work for this. We don't need to increase the [[en:]] on <wikipedia-l>.
-- Toby
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