David Gerard wrote:
I would answer: don't bother, because it will be such an utter clusterfuck and PR disaster (relevant since it's basically a PR-driven initiative) that the fine details really don't matter.
I hadn't thought about it in that light, but you're completely right.
It would be a major tech news story, and a lot of them wouldn't be positive. It could be easily written as a "Wikipedia admits Wikipedia model a failure" story. Even friendly ones would ask why, and the headline could well end up as "Wikipedia bans new articles after 'ruining lives'".
That's not to say it isn't the right thing to do if the model really is a failure. But I'm not there yet.
William