Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Autoconfirmed article creation trial

2011-09-14 Thread MuZemike
Does anyone think we can really get an actual consensus for anything big anymore on en.wiki? To take from Beeblebrox on the Signpost not too long ago (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2011-08-29/The_pending_changes_fiasco): There seems inevitably to come a point in any

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Autoconfirmed article creation trial

2011-09-14 Thread Carcharoth
Possibly a really professional approach with full-time resources devoted to explaining things and producing a detailed FAQ and managing expectations to slowly build a consensus. But that jibes uncomfortably with the approach where groups of volunteers try and produce the same results. It also

Re: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-l] Fwd: Autoconfirmed article creation trial

2011-09-13 Thread Gwern Branwen
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:24 PM, David Gerard dger...@gmail.com wrote: It may seem a big goal, but perhaps en:wp can emulate the success of en:wn. Will we achieve the best-practice level of seven layers of review? We can but hope. And in turn, I look forward to the study of the effects of