----- Original Message ----- From: "Nathan" <nawr...@gmail.com> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" <foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Friday, September 17, 2010 7:17 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
> As for progress since 2005 - unless I'm mistaken, all of your own work > dates to after 2005. Would you not describe your own work as improving > the encyclopedia from its 2005 state? Not at all. I began editing in 2003. William of Sherwood, which I wrote with Sara Uckelmann (a medieval specialist who no longer contributes http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_of_Sherwood&oldid=33153045 I rewrote the article Existence around then http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Existence&oldid=23936506 . You can see it now http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence with all those tags on that I didn't place there. The article is a mess, hacked around by a hundred different people. Zermelo set theory is another example http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Zermelo_set_theory&diff=32606620&oldid=32606590 Note the edit by Randall Holmes - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Randall_Holmes This was the period when a lot of serious and high-powered users were on the project and doing great stuff. Wikipedia started becoming really popular around then and the period 2005-7 saw some big changes. Vandalism started to rise a lot, and with it was the growth of the 'policeman' class of admin. This group generally didn't get on with the content creators and this period was mostly a war between the two groups. The content creators lost because they had no political power. A serious study would be needed to confirm my observations, of course. Kind regards, Peter _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
