[Wikipedia-l] Proposal: Introduce Editor Responsibilities?

[Delirium]

Jimmy Wales wrote:

>The wiki model provides good checks and balances, and it seems
>unlikely that we'll ever want to modify it in any substantial way,
>although of course I do think we can tweak it, and that it'll be
>important for "Wikipedia 1.0" to be stable.
>  
>
This is probably something you and others already assume, but I think 
it's important that whatever we do to make "Wikipedia 1.0" stable is 
non-intrusive, and hopefully somewhat separate from the main Wikipedia.  
The last thing we want is to discourage people from contributing to the 
main, chaotic Wikipedia because we're in the midst of trying to 
stabilize things for 1.0: that should go on in parallel without 
interfering with the "be bold" style editing that we currently enjoy.  
Of course, the opposite concern is that we don't want to make 1.0 a huge 
fork of the main Wikipedia, requiring a ton of improvements to be 
"back-ported" to the main branch.  So we'll just magically find the 
ideal middle ground, I assume. =]

-Mark