[Wikipedia-l] Re: wikipedia is too much open

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Pablo De Nápoli a écrit:

Hi Pablo

Your experience is interesting :-)

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> It seems to me that the model of  wikipedia is too much open, so that open 
> that anyone can annonymously edit any page. That I think is to much.that at 
> least one should have to register and log in in order to modify a page, one 
> has to take a responsability for what is saying (specially for deleting some 
> one else work).

No one but an admin can delete someone else work. Admins are presumed of 
trust. Even if one fail, another can undelete. Apart from that, 
everything is kept in history. You may pick back some of the pas content 
of that article to integrate it again in the current article anytime

In the current model, we don't know who write what
> (even though, most civilizated wiikipedians do log in, but I think this should 
> be mandatory)

We may be civilized even when not loggued

> Another idea that comes to my mind is that there could be some teams for 
> especific topics, that  manage the pages in some section (say mathematics, 
> geogrpahy, 
> economics or whatever). This does not mean that any user from outside the team 
> could not submit modifications. But without a team of core developers or 
> a project leader for each section how can you assure a minimum of
> quality of wikipedia?

Truely Pablo, apart from the wikiproject, this happens quite naturally 
in some topics. Most editors have a favorite topic or two. They will in 
time have most of the articles on the topic on their watch list. Little 
by little, they come to know the other editors who care about these 
topics. They know they can trust them, they also know which one are more 
likely to express a certain type of bias.
That may not be directly visible, but depending on the person who edited 
last a page, an editor will go and check or not. He will no if he can 
expect a certain type of edition or not. We watch articles together. And 
on these articles that we watch together, there is little chance that 
much damage is done and goes unnoticed.

Welcome to the place !