At 11:40 AM 9/6/2009, OrionWorks - Steven Vincent Johnson wrote:
I just wish Wiki would remove the anonymous poster factor and be done with it.
They won't, it's kind of an article of faith, a founding principle. But there is lots of stuff being done to keep the baby and toss the bathwater. It's not the big problem. The big problem is with registered editors, some of whom are not anonymous and still just as damaging. WMC is William M. Connolley, really and actually, there is a Wikipedia article on him, i.e., "William Connolley".
But the problem isn't individual editors, the problem is the structure, or lack of structure that could make finding consensus (tedioous and increasingly difficult as group size increases) efficient (political scientists have though this impossible, just as physcists thought cold fusion impossible. There were certain things they didn't consider as possibilities!). It's typical, in fact, to be expected.
