Hello all,
It might seem a little off-topic on the international mailing list but it seems rather urgent and is of general interest (also non-English Wikipedias).
Have you looked up recently the Wikipedia page http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Karl_Landsteiner as I did yesterday ?
With growing number of pages we either need some review and approval mechanism or a stable namespace or even a stable version of Wikipedia (that would be so open for editing for everyone).
What do you think ?
regards, kpj.
On mar, 2002-05-21 at 10:40, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
Have you looked up recently the Wikipedia page http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/Karl_Landsteiner as I did yesterday ?
Well, I did just now, and I replaced the garbage with a brief stub after a 10-second google search turned up several informationful web pages about the guy. You could have done that yourself!
With growing number of pages we either need some review and approval mechanism or a stable namespace or even a stable version of Wikipedia (that would be so open for editing for everyone).
What do you think ?
The system we have is based on two ideas:
a) Changes to articles will be seen and reviewed by other wikipedians and b) Wikipedians will improve articles they find to be lacking
A is dependent on the number of wikipedians interested in any particular topic (or with a mind to check out new articles), and B is dependent on YOU.
Now, in the case of [[Karl Landsteiner]], the article only has some 47 hits listed at the moment. Most of those are probably spiders; a few more for the idiot who put together the page, and a couple for you and me. Maybe nobody else ever bothered to look at the article before, and it thus survived for a month before being corrected.
If we required that pages be reviewed before they appear to mortal users, would anyone still have ever looked at it? Would it be sitting in a queue still, invisible? Maybe that would be good for this particular article, but would we want that for all the little-seen articles that *aren't* garbage?
I dunno.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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