https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
--- Comment #76 from Brandon Harris <[email protected]> 2011-09-14 22:07:05 UTC --- (In reply to comment #73) > (In reply to comment #72) --->8 [SNIP] 8<---- > > 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. I think Nemo is trying to say that "yes, many people here understand exactly what you're talking about." You'll have to remember that several people commenting here have been involved with the movement since its inception and have done their fair share of the work you're describing. These problems are not unknown to us (the developers and the Foundation). No one saying that there is *not* a problem - far from it, I think: there is widespread agreement that there is a quality/quantity problem with regards to new article creation. However, the general consensus about the interpretation of the data we have (see above, in James Alexander's excellent comment) is that an autoconfirmed trial would produce less-than-desirable results. And (as was pointed out above), such a move, even in trial format, would have long-lasting social ramifications. Relax! You scored a victory! Your concerns have been heard and marked as a priority. Attempts are being made to address them. The Foundation has now dedicated a lot of resources towards this problem. I can't promise that anything will be developed immediately (we are resource constrained) but it *will* happen. As to why we don't implement the trial while we wait for better solutions, we come back to the "long lasting social implications". Wikimedia projects already have a reputation of being insular and exclusionary; we have been working very hard to reverse this impression. Implementing something now - even in the short term - would only reinforce this impression to the public at large. We're all trying to do what's best for the project, believe me. -- 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
