On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:07 AM, Charles Matthews < [email protected]> wrote:
> We now live on Wikipedia, I think, with a fuller consciousness of our > finite if very large human resources, and (at least as I see it) the > "pure wiki" approach is mainly a distraction from the mission "write the > encyclopedia". Hence my use of the term "rationalisation" for the > attitude that we should very much focus on the core mission. > > I'm still not seeing the connection, but I'll try one last time. It sounds like you're saying that discussion of deletion process distracts us from working on building new, better articles on topics that we already have, and that we shouldn't worry too much about deleted content because it probably wasn't any good anyway. I think there's some logic in this, but it's still the case that (a) sometimes we ought to take a step back and consider process from a birds-eye view, or else it will develop chaotically as a massive cancerous collection of short-term responses to short-term problems and (b) there is no drawback to pure wiki deletion that we don't already suffer from the existing system, and it has several considerable advantages over the status quo. If you agree with B (and you ought to), then you ought to think that pure wiki deletion is a good idea. Maybe you don't think it's a good enough idea to invest the time and energy into getting it implemented (A), but B is what's really important here-- if enough people subscribe to B, it will find a way to get done. - causa sui _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
