[WikiEN-l] New York Times article

[Jimmy Wales]

Lord Voldemort wrote:
> On 6/20/06, The Cunctator <cunctator at gmail.com> wrote:
>> [snip] It's
>> difficult to tell and Wales isn't particularly interested in doing honest
>> critical analyses of the effects of his policies.
> [snip]
>> This is a complicated matter and neither the NYT, nor Jimmy, nor BoingBoing
>> is helping matters by oversimplifying the debate.
> 
> Well, to be fair to Jimmy, it really isn't _his_ policy. By framing
> the debate with this in mind, I think you too are oversimplifying. ;-)
> It was a policy decided by community consensus.

And, I should add to this.  I never ever heard of semi-protection until
the community consensus was overwhelming to have it implemented.
Someone pointed me to the discussion and page about it, and I thought:
wow, this is brilliant, I fully support it.

But, yes, it is absolutely not possible for me to claim credit for
semi-protection.  It is a brilliant innovation that allows us to be more
open than before, when we only had the tool of protection.  But it is
not my innovation, and I do not know who first thought of it.


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