On 14 April 2013 14:29, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 14 April 2013 14:21, Anthony <wikim...@inbox.org> wrote:
>> We have Wales to "thank" for the absurd "Articles for Creation" process (Is >> that still around? I haven't checked in a long time.). Seems to me that >> constitutes a "significant role in debates over inclusion deletion". > Only by a stretch. I'd call it an argument against top-down > intervention. There is no such thing as rescue by magic, and berating > someone for failing to do the impossible strikes me as pointless. > Pretty much everything that's fucked up about Wikipedia is emergent > behaviour of people being a problem, and top-down magic can't possibly > scale to fix that. It can cripple it, though. I'll also note that I suspect opening up article creation to anons again will be impossible within the community - because they actually wanted to lock it down even further, and the Foundation stepped in and said "no, keep it open". - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l