https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
--- Comment #73 from The Blade of the Northern Lights <[email protected]> 2011-09-14 21:51:49 UTC --- (In reply to comment #72) > (In reply to comment #57) > > (In reply to comment #51) > > > As I said above, I don't think that "500 editors vs. WMF" is a fair > > > characterization of what's happening here. You might also want to > > > consider that > > > en.wiki is one wiki among 700+ and 270 Wikipedias: first, you should > > > consider > > > the experiences of other wikis and we could discover that keeping > > > restricting > > > new editors permissions hasn't helped; second, I don't think that the > > > global > > > community and the WMF can allow projects which are all called "Wikipedia" > > > to be > > > completely different with regard to openness and basic > > > principles/workings – > > > it's already strange enough that en.wiki is the only wiki with article > > > creation > > > restricted to registered users (ok, there are also id, fa, ta.wiki and > > > es.books). > > > > There is nothing strange about it - no other Wiki has to contend with > > the > > huge daily influx of *totally* unacceptable new pages. This is probably > > not > > easy for anyone to understand who has not spent 100s of hours > > patrolling > > new pages and patrolling the people who are supposed to be patrolling > > them, > > and then physically deleting them or indeed removing incorrect CSD > > templates. [...] > > Please stop telling people they don't have a right to express their opinions. > Your argument is weak, because small wikis have also less patroller. > And, by the way, your personal argument is nonsense; I've spent not hundreds > but probably thousands of hours patrolling in the last 5+ years. Huh? He never said you couldn't express your opinion. He merely said that it takes some experience to understand why people would want a change like this. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
