[WikiEN-l] Pending Changes: first press

[Michael Peel]

On 15 Jun 2010, at 00:39, Risker wrote:

> On 14 June 2010 19:22, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/wikipedia_to_loosen_controls_tonight.php
>> 
>> Spotted by Nihiltres.
>> 
>> 
>> 
> <groan>
> The George Bush page is not going to be part of this trial, because there is
> no reasonable chance that the tiny, tiny percentage of useful edits will
> make up for all the vandalism and BLP violations that will be added. That
> was possibly the one thing that everyone working on the encyclopedia end of
> the trial came to agreement on very quickly.

Interesting - really? I was really hoping to see this tried to see whether it could work on such an article. Can you link me to the discussion about this, please?

From a media contact point of view: one of the first things the media want are examples where it will be used, which is somewhat of a difficult question to answer when a) the community hasn't made its mind up, and b) even if it has, the community can change its mind at any time. ;-)

Thanks,
Mike