On 1/25/07, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/25/07, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 1/25/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
The purpose of Wikipedia is not to make OTRS happy, any more than it is to make Articles For Deletion happy.
Every article on Wikipedia has a maintenance cost and a benefit to the project as a whole. It's reasonable for us to choose not to keep articles whose maintenance cost is greater than the benefit they provide.
Everyone is free to not contribute to the maintenance of some section of WP.
One lone editor willing to babysit a thousand articles nobody else cares about is sufficient maintenance committment.
What we don't have is any way to currently know if there is someone who cares about an article and is paying attention to it. (Feature request? Beyond watchlist, add a new "Maintenance Watchlist" and make that visible from the article side or some such?)
Some people had (have?) public watchlists - a page that lists articles they are watching, which others can also watch by clicking on [related changes]. That would serve this purpose.
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-george william herbert george.herbert@gmail.com
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