Can anybody explain what PWD is? Thanks, Emily On Jan 26, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Ryan Delaney wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 3:05 PM, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On 23 January 2010 23:00, Ryan Delaney <ryan.dela...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Repeat after me: Pure Wiki Deletion. >> >> >> Last time the subject came up, I believe the advocates were asked for >> any examples, anywhere, of wikis that use Pure Wiki Deletion. I don't >> think they came up with any at all. >> >> Are there any? >> >> (Is it possible that the biggest and most popular wiki in the world >> might not be the best place to make the very first one?) >> > > Not that I know of. Lomax made some interesting points though, and I > want to carry that reasoning forward. I think there are two compelling > reasons to adopt PWD: (1) we have substantial evidence that a > wiki-style content editing process is a successful way to build an > encyclopedia because every other content decision we make uses that > basic format... and look at all the wild success we've had with it. > (2) The current deletion system is a failure, as it creates > intractable problems like this one. > > Because of the terrific success we've had with making all /other/ > kinds of content edits subject to the Wiki model (and our almost > religious faith in the dispute resolution process), I think the burden > ought to be on everyone else to explain why pure wiki deletion > /wouldn't/ work. It doesn't introduce any new problems that we don't > already have extensive experience and process in place to solve, since > deletion would be treated as any other kind of edit (and so edit wars > over deletion could be treated like any other edit war) -- it > increases transparency and makes it easier to restore content in cases > like this one, so that we ALSO wouldn't feel so bad about temporarily > deleting marginal BLPs until they can be improved (and by anyone, not > just admins) -- and it massively simplifies deletion process in the > case of 99% of deletions which are absolutely uncontroversial. > > The only software changes we would need would be that blanked pages > should show up as redlinks and should not be indexed by search engines > or show up when someone hits Random Page. That's pretty much it. The > software changes are easy and minimal, but the cultural change would > be massive. > > I appreciate everyone's trepidation over this, really-- big changes > are scary. But I really wonder how many of these catastrophic snafu's > we'll have to go through before people get fed up with the problems > that inevitably result from this deletion system and look for some > kind of major overhaul. That's not pie in the sky -- it's in order. We > ought to get started now. > > - causa sui > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l