On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 12:41:43PM +0100, Christiaan Briggs wrote:
And there's an example of the attitude I was talking in my first post. It's curious in that it accepts that wiki markup is barrier to participation but that this is somehow a good thing.
Well, ok; let's talk to that topic.
Yeah, it *is* good.
Go ahead, call me an elitist again.
For Wikipedia, specifically, any cost which much be paid by potential editors -- within reasonable limits -- is a *good* thing, as it weeds out an increasingly larger pool of potential vandals.
This is less of an issue on non-WMF sites, but I really *do* think it's a good thing for wp, et al, yes. It *is* possible for vandalism to outstrip the capability of the active userbase to clean it up; negative feedback is useful.
Cheers, -- jra