https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
--- Comment #82 from [email protected] 2011-09-16 07:57:57 UTC --- (In reply to comment #80) > (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. I've reopened this - it's long from finished. The refusal to conduct this trial is based not on 'buckets' of stats, for there aren't any. It's based on some 'stats' of extremely dubious provenance that were made up and published at Wikimedia. The refusal to allow this trial is not based on a decision of the WMF, it's a unilateral decision by one or two single-minded WMF staffers whose paid status has gone to their heads - to the extent even that they can't even keep a civil tongue in his head when posting here. What is more important? - continuing to allow free rein to the vandals, attackers, and spammers under the completely and utterly false assumption that 30% of our best editors began their Wiki career as vandals,? Or to to encourage serious editors to wait an hour or so before their new article goes live - and above all doing more to retain the good contributors that we already have and desperately need. The attitudes expressed here purportedly in the name of the WMF, have already sown the seeds of exodus from the Wikipedia of some of our most competent contributors and policy watchers - is that what is wanted? -- 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
