https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30208
--- Comment #84 from c...@edubkk.org 2011-09-16 08:10:24 UTC --- (In reply to comment #21) > To fill up everyone's inboxes just that little bit more, I think it's worth > rebutting the above inaccuracy: > > > Wikipedia is indeed the encyclopedia anyone can edit. There has however, > > never > > been a policy that anyone can create new pages. > > Sorry, but this is just wrong. All users, anonymous and otherwise, used to be > able to create articles. It was a right that was "temporarily" suspended after > the Seigenthaler issue in 2006, pending the creation of a system that would > let > us review changes before they went live. The fact that said system - Flagged > Revisions, created to return us to the status quo (that is, one in which > anonymous users can create articles) - has run into difficulties with the > community does not mean that the idea that it's settled policy that there's no > policy that all users can create new pages. > > I worry that this throws more heat than light on the situation, but we can't > go > around making massive changes to the community interaction model whilst at the > same time relaying false and damaging claims about our intent, which don't > help > anyone. No one is making 'massive changes' without a trial. Only a trial can prove who is right and who is wrong. The developers of the trial have taken every avenue into consideration, including the 12 months of research that preceded it. The opinions of those who oppose this new, are driven purely by 1) emotion, and 2). by the power of authority vested in them as paid employees of the WMF. -- 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 Wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
