[WikiEN-l] Proposal: improving quality on enwiki

[Jossi Fresco]

On Mar 30, 2007, at 7:27 PM, Kelly Martin wrote:

> There are already a lot of SWGs on Wikipedia, with varying degrees of
> organization; many WikiProjects qualify as such.  However, both the
> automation and the sense of group responsibility is not currently
> present, and needs to be cultivated.  We need these people to feel
> personally responsible for the quality of all of the articles in their
> SWG.
>
> This is a response to the scaling problem.  The English Wikipedia's
> community has grown too large to function organically the way it used
> to three years ago.  It is my belief that breaking it up into multiple
> subject-oriented communities will help to combat the scaling problem:
> the members of the SWG will all know one another and are far more
> likely to remain collegial and productive with one another.  A SWG
> that gets too large can be subdivided further, which means this
> provides an ongoing solution to the scaling problem, not just a
> one-time fix.

This is already happening where is needed. Trying to impose this on  
the whole of en.wiki would be a mistake. Let it grow organically. If  
there are people that want to get together and form an SWG, nothing  
is stopping them. Should we encourage them to form one of they do not  
feel like, of course not. If there is something we need less is  
bureaucracy. Personal responsibility cannot be neither policed nor  
encouraged by rules.

-- Jossi