Comments on: Anonymous Page Creation to come back to the English Wikipedia? http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/08/28/anonymous-page-creation-to-come-back-to-the-english-wikipedia/ A blog by a Brit about Web 2.0, the Internet and technology in general. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 07:41:43 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Bill Thompson http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/08/28/anonymous-page-creation-to-come-back-to-the-english-wikipedia/comment-page-1/#comment-15472 Bill Thompson Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:01:24 +0000 http://joeanderson.co.uk/blog/2006/08/28/anonymous-page-creation-to-come-back-to-the-english-wikipedia/#comment-15472 Hi there I wasn't complaining about the new proposal so much as exploring some of its implications - that if there's an editorial layer between the editor of a page on Wikipedia and its appearence then the 'wikiness' of the site is diminished, and Wikipedia becomes more like any other site. I feel that the community should be talking about this, which it seems they are. It also seems that the plan so far is that edits will be visible to those who choose to see them but that anon visitors will, by default, see only the 'approved' page, which is not quite what I'd understood from the interview with Jimmy Wales given to C|Net. But you're right that I approve of a user-made encyclopedia, and want Wikipedia to succeed - I just think that, like all significant projects, it needs critical friends who can raise questions and have them taken seriously. Hi there
I wasn’t complaining about the new proposal so much as exploring some of its implications – that if there’s an editorial layer between the editor of a page on Wikipedia and its appearence then the ‘wikiness’ of the site is diminished, and Wikipedia becomes more like any other site.

I feel that the community should be talking about this, which it seems they are. It also seems that the plan so far is that edits will be visible to those who choose to see them but that anon visitors will, by default, see only the ‘approved’ page, which is not quite what I’d understood from the interview with Jimmy Wales given to C|Net.

But you’re right that I approve of a user-made encyclopedia, and want Wikipedia to succeed – I just think that, like all significant projects, it needs critical friends who can raise questions and have them taken seriously.

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