[WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikiquality-l] Current Status

[Erik Moeller]

On 1/14/08, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:

> Yes, I'd say you're being unduly pessimistic.  Rollback was a
> trivial, unimportant change that a few people wanted.  Flagged
> revisions is an important, beneficial change that everybody wants.
> There *is* a difference (I hope).

Maybe. Groups of people tend to be highly risk averse. It's to me
unproven that decision making processes based on large groups are
capable of large scale innovation. This is the one thing that I find
disconcerting about the rollback episode: if we need 80%+ of support
for everything, how can we ever hope to make changes to the
fundamentals, like getting rid of wiki syntax in favor of rich text
editing, or implementing a better discussion system?

Sometimes, some people _will_ be unhappy, and sometimes you _will_
have to allow yourself to make a mistake, if you want to be able to
also improve.
-- 
Erik Möller