https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
--- Comment #80 from The Blade of the Northern Lights <[email protected]> 2011-09-15 19:46:30 UTC --- (In reply to comment #79) > (In reply to comment #74) > > > Someone editing Wikipedia in their spare time, contributing useful > > > information > > > may not wait 4 days. They may never come back. > > > > Then they probably wouldn't have stayed anyway. > I disagree. > > > 4 days and 10 edits is not a > > large commitment, considering that most experienced longtime editors have > > well > > over 10,000 edits over the course of many years. > > It's very different to set such kind of requirement (or others much higher) > for > things like votations, and for core features like creating a page. > > If person A wants to create an article about Foomatics, *on his own time*, > *for > free*, requiring him to eg. "patrol 10 pages before doing that" will not > encourage new editors to stay. We get that you don't agree with us, but we have the stats on our side; nonetheless, this bug is (for the time being, at least) marked as resolved, won't fix. Let it go. -- 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
