[Foundation-l] Pending Changes

[Andreas Kolbe]

German Wikipedia has had pending changes implemented *globally*, in all articles, for several years now. Unlike en:WP, where numbers of active editors have dropped significantly since 2007, numbers of active editors in de:WP have remained stable:

http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaDE.htm
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm 

There may well be cultural differences, reflected in the greater support the pending changes concept has gained in the de:WP community in general, but it is still a striking result.

A. 

--- On Wed, 29/9/10, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Date: Wednesday, 29 September, 2010, 20:55
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 16:37, James
> Heilman <jmh649 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I support PC for a number of reasons including.
> >
> > 1) Concerns are voiced both by academia and our
> readership regarding
> > Wikipedia's reliability. Pending changes addresses
> some of these
> > concerns.
> 
> James, we don't want to cater to the academic community,
> but to
> everyone, and seeing our edits go live immediately was the
> thing that
> made Wikipedia very attractive, its strength and its
> weakness. We
> should need a very clear consensus to change that, and the
> polls so
> far have not shown a strong consensus.
> 
> This isn't Nupedia or Citizendium, and any attempt to nudge
> us in that
> direction, which is what PC is, has the potential to damage
> us.
> 
> Sarah
> 
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