[Foundation-l] Hi, Jimmy Wales, Is there inspectors to investigate admins?

David Gerard dgerard at gmail.com
Mon Sep 11 15:51:53 UTC 2006


On 11/09/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:
> David Gerard wrote:

> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Gerard/Process_is_Dangerous
> > Process is there to help write an encyclopedia. Beyond that, it must
> > stay completely malleable. Important considerations are NPOV,
> > verifiability and no original research. For community maintenance,
> > assume good faith and no personal attacks; and don't bite the newbies,
> > since they seem to write most of the actual content, on en: at least.

> Given that this is Foundation, no original research should be less of a
> criteria. It is very much what you want in an encyclopaedia, but for
> other projects it is not necessarily that great.


Oh, definitely - it talks mostly about the en:wp experience and
certainly isn't about all Wikimedia wikis. Though the ad-hoc nature of
most process is important to keep in mind for everywhere, I think ;-)


- d.



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