On Thursday 20 September 2007 14:18:18 David Gerard wrote:
Call from Nicole Martin, Daily Telegraph, asking after the article that was in yesterday's New Scientist: [...] Points I repeated a few times:
- Casual readers will see the marked-stable version by default,
logged-in editors will see the current live version
- Anyone can still edit, anonymous or not (you still won't need a
login to fix a spelling error)
- Details are NOT fixed yet, resolving over the next two months
- Almost certainly will go live on German Wikipedia in November this year
- No timeline for other editions, particularly English, though we're
enthusiastically watching
- English has notably worked to increase quality over the past couple
of years, adding references, marking unreferenced articles, etc., so readers will at least know what they're getting
- http://quality.wikimedia.org/ - I asked her to include the URL in
the article, strongly suggested she read up on things there.
The New Scientist article has caused a Spiegel-Online article http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/web/0,1518,507076,00.html with even more questionable statements ("Wikipedia will be changeable by trusted users only").
I have written a comment to the author and CC'ed it to wikide-l (sorry it's written in German ;): http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikide-l/2007-September/019765.html
Greetings, Arnomane