German Wikipedia has had pending changes implemented *globally*, in all articles, for several years now. Unlike en:WP, where numbers of active editors have dropped significantly since 2007, numbers of active editors in de:WP have remained stable:
http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaDE.htm http://stats.wikimedia.org/EN/TablesWikipediaEN.htm There may well be cultural differences, reflected in the greater support the pending changes concept has gained in the de:WP community in general, but it is still a striking result. A. --- On Wed, 29/9/10, SlimVirgin <[email protected]> wrote: > From: SlimVirgin <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Pending Changes > To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <[email protected]> > Date: Wednesday, 29 September, 2010, 20:55 > On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 16:37, James > Heilman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > I support PC for a number of reasons including. > > > > 1) Concerns are voiced both by academia and our > readership regarding > > Wikipedia's reliability. Pending changes addresses > some of these > > concerns. > > James, we don't want to cater to the academic community, > but to > everyone, and seeing our edits go live immediately was the > thing that > made Wikipedia very attractive, its strength and its > weakness. We > should need a very clear consensus to change that, and the > polls so > far have not shown a strong consensus. > > This isn't Nupedia or Citizendium, and any attempt to nudge > us in that > direction, which is what PC is, has the potential to damage > us. > > Sarah > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
