Daniel Mayer <maveric149(a)yahoo.com> writes:
We usually move hopelessly POV stuff to Meta. I vote
for moving ALL the
Wikipedia/foo pages there (even the geographic based categories). IMO the
Wikiepdians page at en.wiki should be a alphabetic list with a link to the
the chronological "history" list that states when each user joined.
No, the geographical categories are really useful. If you need an
information about a country specific topic, you can ask someone there,
f.e. I would even suggest to add more categories. Wikipedia has become
quite anonymously. I think it would be useful for example to set up pages
like "people mainly interested in philosophical topics" or "music
freaks". As Wikipedia grows, we will need small communities of people
working in one field together instead of individuals filling up the
articles.
This would be also a step towards a more efficient dealing with "content
trolls", ie. people who step in, holding obscure views and imposing
their agenda onto wikipedia. One of the main problems with these people is
that they get away a long time with their behavior because the people who
try to control are not able to judge what is rubbish and what is not.
An example: in the German wikipedia I would love to have some economy
students who could at least tell which parts of the content added by our
"Freiwirtschaft"-adherent to the articles about economy are mainstream
view and which need to be marked as minority view.
Don't deny people this possibility to organize!
greetings,
elian
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