[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales post on Huffington Post
Charles Matthews
charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com
Tue Sep 22 11:10:40 UTC 2009
Steve Bennett wrote:
> Hmm, I feel that Wales' post is kind of at cross-purposes to the meme
> he's trying to defeat:
> 1) Meme: Newbie editors who make edits to random articles will require
> those edits to be approved before going live.
> 2) Rebuttal: Newbie editors will now be able to make edits to
> currently protected articles, albeit with those edits requiring
> approval.
>
>
It's somewhat oblique, but shrewd enough. Given that WP does operate
trade-offs of "openness" versus "editorial control", with scary quotes,
it is to some extent negotiable how these are presented in a PR sense.
The mainstreamers have spectacularly misinterpreted what is planned
(briefly, they might as well have said "kids, in future your edits will
all be routed into this big newsroom of disapproving killjoys"). While
what is actually going to happen is that the editorial filo pastry will
get another layer (which we _hope_ will prove light, tasty and
digestible). And some page protection will be removed.
Charles
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