[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales post on Huffington Post

[stevertigo]

Erik Moeller <erik at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> "However, as noted above, a global setting to show sighted revisions
> in preference to unsighted ones should not be enabled unless and until
> it is found to scale sufficiently well, and to not have a dramatic
> negative impact on the user experience.

Hm. Keep in mind that the need for such functionality is to automate
part of what administrators already do. Someone will still have to
"approve" certain edits, and thus the issue of administrator quality
of service is not addressed, the technolog-ese solution represents
just an obfuscation. This is to say little of the behind-the article
issue of collaboration and consensus.

David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jimmy-wales/what-the-msm-gets-wrong-a_b_292809.html

The need to simplify things for the MSM sometimes gets things lost.
Jimbo: "..while gently asking those who want to cause trouble to
please go somewhere else.."
would be better said as: "..while offering suggestions to difficult
people of various kinds on how to improve their editing and along with
their thinking and expression skills."

It is of course great to see Jimbo expressing himself in a more
general forum, where he can get out his insights into collaboration
that are not limited to just Wikipedia or online documentation
interfaces.

-Stevertigo