On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 2:21 PM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 6:54 PM, Erik Moeller <[email protected]> wrote: >> 2009/4/1 doc <[email protected]>: >>> Is it perhaps time, that we started to demand that basic sourcing was a >>> pre-requisite of creating an article on any living person? >> >> Without commenting on this specific proposal, I thought it interesting >> that the de.wikipedia.org community implemented a fairly simple way to >> drive more sourcing on all articles: They made the edit summary field >> mandatory for new users, and have renamed it to "Summary and Sources", >> making it clear in lots of places that edits without sources aren't >> acceptable. If you look at anon recent-changes on de.wp, you'll notice >> that this has led to lots of people including URLs, etc., directly in >> their edit summaries. [1] This makes it at least a bit easier for >> other users to decide on whether the edit was legitimate. >> >> [1] >> http://de.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Spezial:Letzte_%C3%84nderungen&hideliu=1 >> - As an interesting side note, the mandatory summary script doesn't >> seem to trigger on section edits, and those are still very frequently >> unexplained. > > This is pretty great, and could be an easy, painless way to up > sourcing across the board.
p.s. I put this on the Village Pump for discussion as well -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(proposals)#changing_text_of_edit_summary_field -- phoebe _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
