[WikiEN-l] Jimmy Wales post on Huffington Post

[David Gerard]

2009/9/24 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at gmail.com>:

> If what happens with the roll-out of FR is going to be
> a reduction of pages semied or protected fully, that will
> be awesome and a definite proof of Jimbos thesis.
> If however the actual result is a shift in editing cultural
> attitudes (measured for instance in the rate of non-BLP
> articles being semied or protected after the introduction
> of FR) towards a stricter and more defensive attitude
> towards addition of new information, there clearly are
> metrics to evaluate that, and that will be proof of the
> other sort.


Yep. We'll need all the numbers on this we can.


- d.