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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
Abolish the blacklists.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
Okay, so get rid of the perennial sources page.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
It began as an essay, if I'm not mistaken, and so it should be made a subpage of the person who ever started it.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
And then you simply say that if there is a source which is not
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
supported, that is regarded by many Wikipedians as not reliable, et cetera, then you, when there is a claim made in such a source, depending on the circumstances,
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
It can be made, but it has to be attributed to the source.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
And the other side obviously should be given an opportunity to respond with its own sources as needed.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
Which is what we have been speaking about.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
So I don't really think that's necessary to go into any more detail about that.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
But that particular article, each of these has an article that it's linked to.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
That particular article is good as a sort of introduction to the issues involved.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
Right, so number five, repeal, ignore all rules.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
So yeah, in the early weeks of Wikipedia, there were a lot of people who were shy and not bold enough about making edits, which you really have to be if you're going to work on a wiki.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
And so I was encouraging them by saying, be bold in updating pages and so forth.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
And one of the other things that I said is ignore all rules.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
If rules make you nervous and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them and go about your business.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
That's essentially the original wording.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
And the whole idea is a tongue-in-cheek expression of our good faith trust in people to get things right, more or less.
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
And if they actually do...
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Wikipedia Co-Creator Reveals All: Secret Editors, Banning Content, & Ignoring Rules
You know, step over the line somehow.