Wikipedia hereby formally announces tighter editorial controls on Reuters and Slashdot...;-)
I spoke in English to many journalists yesterday and the day before (90 journalists registered to cover Wikimania). I spoke to one journalist about our longstanding discussions of how to create a "stable version" or "Wikipedia 1.0". This would not involve substantial changes to how we do our usual work, but rather a new process for identifying our best work.
I spoke in English, and this was translate to German. Then the German was translated back to English, and then translated again into the Slashdot story.
There was no "announcement". We are constantly reviewing our policies and looking for ways to improve, but we have not "announced" anything. We don't even really work that way... if you know how Wikipedia works, it's through a long process of community discussion and consensus building, not through a process of top-down announcements.
Indeed. It's a bit crazy here, as Jimbo says. Typical Slashdot reactionism.:-)
Seriously, these kind of mis-translations from language to language happen all the time on a multi-lingual project like Wikimedia. We just have to cope with momentary mis-understandings like this every now and then.
Wikipedia announces... (Score:5, Informative)
I spoke in English to many journalists yesterday and the day before (90 journalists registered to cover Wikimania). I spoke to one journalist about our longstanding discussions of how to create a "stable version" or "Wikipedia 1.0". This would not involve substantial changes to how we do our usual work, but rather a new process for identifying our best work.
I spoke in English, and this was translate to German. Then the German was translated back to English, and then translated again into the Slashdot story.
There was no "announcement". We are constantly reviewing our policies and looking for ways to improve, but we have not "announced" anything. We don't even really work that way... if you know how Wikipedia works, it's through a long process of community discussion and consensus building, not through a process of top-down announcements.
Re:Wikipedia announces... (Score:2)
Seriously, these kind of mis-translations from language to language happen all the time on a multi-lingual project like Wikimedia. We just have to cope with momentary mis-understandings like this every now and then.