[Foundation-l] [Wikipedia-l] Mywikipediaspace

[David Gerard]

On 02/10/06, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com> wrote:
> On Mon, October 2, 2006 11:12, David Gerard wrote:
> > On 02/10/06, Alison Wheeler <wikimedia at alisonwheeler.com> wrote:

> >> Whilst I love the fact that our projects are "open" the massive growth
> >> we
> >> haev experienced has clearly led to problems with commercial cruft in a
> >> few - which will no doubt expand to the others in time - and this might
> >> well be the right way to go. I would support something of this nature.

> > So how to enforce it?

> It is already being enforced; something of this nature though would enable
> a 'delete on sight' rather than the extra delay going through AfD causes,
> even though it is clear that deletion will be the result. (remember that
> thing about 'process'?)


I mean an arguably odious "terms of service" clickthrough. As we can
already see, it's the sort of idea that makes people cough up
hairballs. This suggests it may be problematic to inflict upon the
community.


- d.