On 08/09/2016 16:30, Joseph Marlin wrote:
> The English Wikipedia has 1,294 administrators who can delete and protect 
> pages, but these are definitely not paid, nor are they fulltime unless they 
> choose to be. They are entirely volunteer, and are simply regular editors who 
> have proven to be reliable and active. The English Wikipedia in general has 
> ‎28,922,038 users and 5,234,360 articles. 
> 
> Note that this means there are roughly 4000 articles per admin. 
> 
> I really do not think approval processes are going to solve more problems 
> than they cause. As was pointed out, approval processes are largely what sunk 
> Nupedia. Although calling it "Nupedia" likely didn't help either. :-)
> 

minor details, openwrt wiki still has 0 admins that delete and protect
pages, which is the important part of my mail





> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Crispin" <j...@phrozen.org>
> To: "Jan-Tarek Butt" <ta...@ring0.de>, lede-dev@lists.infradead.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 8, 2016 10:08:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [LEDE-DEV] Documentation for router support means the famous 
> Table of Hardware
> 
> On 08/09/2016 15:56, Jan-Tarek Butt wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 09/08/16 14:19, Russell Senior wrote:
>>>>>>>> "Jan-Tarek" == Jan-Tarek Butt <ta...@ring0.de> writes:
>>>
>>> Jan-Tarek> Also I wish we can establish a reviewing and applying
>>> Jan-Tarek> process.  But I dont know how we can resolv this inside a
>>> Jan-Tarek> wiki
>>>
>>> The traditional wiki approach is to let people make edits freely and to
>>> revert bad changes.  That way, general progress isn't held up by
>>> overloaded reviewers.  Again, see the history of Nupedia.
>>>
>>>  "Before it ceased operating, Nupedia produced 25 approved articles"
>>>
>>> In contrast, in the first year, Wikipedia produced 18,000 articles.
>>
>> OK, convinced ;)
>>
>> So what is about porting the old openWRT Wiki to LEDE?
>> And witch wiki software sould we use?
>>
>> cheers
>> Tarek
>>
> 
> wikipedia has a huge number of payed fulltime admins that delete
> articles. wiki.openwrt.org has none. you are comparing apples and pears here
> 
>       John
> 
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