[WikiEN-l] Proposal: improving quality on enwiki

[Ray Saintonge]

Kirill Lokshin wrote:

>But the key issue, I think, is simply this: prescriptive collaboration
>models do not, as a general rule, work on Wikipedia.  The vast
>majority of editors make content contributions on topics of their
>choice; if they're told that they *must* work on article X, they'll
>simply refuse.  This proposal, basically, assumes that there's a
>supply of editors somewhere willing to do work (which happens to be
>"not fun" in a major way) according to some central bureaucracy's
>dictates; in my experience, there simply isn't such a supply
>available.
>
Prescriptive collaboration is an oxymoron.

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