[Foundation-l] Wikipedia is not bureaucracy, said bureaucrat and deleted article

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi,
So you have an idea ... please share it and explain why you think it will
make a difference. It does not really help to leave with a cliff hanger ...
Thanks,
     GerardM

2009/11/26 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>

> Read
> http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/11/25/160236/Contributors-Leaving-Wikipedia-In-Record-Numbers
>
> Article is based on Felipe Ortega's research. There are two claims
> from this article:
>
> 1. English-language version of Wikipedia suffered a net loss of 49,000
> contributors, compared with a loss of about 4,900 during the same
> period in 2008
> 2. There is an increase of bureaucracy and rules.
>
> I would like to hear from Felipe clarification of the claim that
> 49,000 contributors left Wikipedia. If it is so, then en.wp has around
> ten times more fluctuation of contributors. (According to statistics
> [1], there are no significant changes between the first months of 2008
> and 2009.) If it is so, we should try to understand why is it so.
>
> The second claim produced a lot of *relevant* testimonies from
> Wikipedian work. Please, read them. For the first time I see highly
> relevant discussion on Slashdot about Wikipedia structure. All of them
> are talking about current problems of Wikipedia.
>
> Problems are now visible at such level, that main stream media are
> talking about them [2]. I would say that we need some radical moves to
> stop current negative trends inside of the projects. Which? I don't
> know. We should think about them. (Actually, I have a couple of
> possible changes in my mind, which are not radical. However, their
> implementation would need radical changes. Because of bureaucracy.)
>
> [1] - http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/ChartsWikipediaEN.htm
> [2] -
> http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6930546.ece
>
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