Jimmy Wales wrote:
Another class of pages for which total deletion makes sense would be for legitimate page titles with totally nonsensical content. A total deletion is better than a page clearing, because it restores the ? link on pages that may mention this page, thus alerting us that it needs fixing.
For example, a couple of days ago I noticed that we didn't have a page on Colin Powell, while reading a page about the current effort. If there had been a blank page there, I would not have noticed it, and we wouldn't have that content now.
That can be solved. Software must be changed so that blank pages have a ? link.
- Are the deletions tracked (even if not available to the public) in
any way? Is there any way that it can be determined which administrator has deleted a file (eg: usernames, IP addresses)? If not, is there any reason why there shouldn't be in the future?
I think it is obvious that pretty much nothing should be done in secret.
of Wikipedia, which is probably Bomis' biggest asset.
Well, not really. Wikipedia traffic is extraordinarily tiny compared to our other properties. Nonetheless, I do think Wikipedia is exciting and promising.
I think the idea was that, in this project, the biggest asset of Bomis is the "Wikipedia reputation". Not the content, but the reputation. I would say that there are two important assets for Bomis here:
1 - wikipedia reputation 2 - wikipedia community
That's what Bomis must preserve. Others can use the same content to build a similar project, but they would not have the same reputation and the same community.