[WikiEN-l] My rant

[NSK]

On Tuesday 25 January 2005 03:09, Christopher Mahan wrote:
> I'm pissed, and I want to rant. (you've been warned)

I understand you completely; the problem in Wikipedia is that authors start 
writing without discussing, planning and organising their efforts. In my wiki 
projects I will try to follow a different approach, and I believe Wikipedia 
should consider a change in its attitudes. Here is my design:
1. The wiki is just a place to store articles. Discussions in the wiki are 
prohibited.
2. The Talk: pages are renamed Test: pages and all the writing and 
collaborative writing happens there.
3. Non-Test pages (i.e. the real articles) are protected and only admins can 
edit them.
4. The authors are using a mailing list, a phpBB forum and a special 
collaboration platform to discuss and decide how to write the article. An 
example of a very good collaboration platform is phpCollab.
5. There are Article Maintainers who check for copyright violations and check 
the references, et cetera.
6. Every article is developed in a software-like fashion, i.e. there are 
versions and when the mains (maintainers) approve an article it will be 
checked by the admins. The admins then publish the article in a non-Test page 
(i.e. the main namespace) and give to it a unique version number such as 1.4.

You can learn more about this design at 
http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Editing_process

Some additional info about versions exists at 
http://nerdypc.wikinerds.org/index.php/Help:Article_versions

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