Sifter-l -- Forum for issues concerning the Wikipedia peer review project

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This mailing list will help develop and guide the following proposal. In view of the facts that Wikipedia has grown tremendously; that we have lost several of our most overeducated, overqualified participants due to disgust with having to deal with a few difficult, uncooperative participants; and above all, that there is a vast body of hundreds of highly educated and willing free encyclopedia participants waiting idle due to the dormancy of Nupedia; we propose the following: (1) We--whether Bomis or someone else--should set up another website. It should definitely not live at the Wikipedia.com domain. (2) The purpose of the new website will be to select and post Wikipedia articles that are up to a certain standard. (3) The only participants in the new website will be those that meet the Nupedia requirements in their particular fields, or some other similarly stringent requirements. (4) A small group of trusted people will be responsible for approving participants. (5) The website will be read only. No one will be able to edit it directly, including its participants. This means it won't be a wiki. (6) Any participant will have to go to Wikipedia to make any edits to an article. (7) Participants will save particular versions of articles, not the current article, whatever it happens to be. There should be a link to "the most current version" of a given article on Wikipedia, as well. (8) Implementing the website should not require any changes to Wikipedia. I want to leave Wikipedia alone completely. The only thing that might make sense is to add a link (which should be optional!) to a corresponding "subset" website article, if it exists. In particular, "subset" participants should not be regarded as Wikipedia editors with any particular, special status on Wikipedia. And "subset" policy, whatever it might turn out to be, should not necessarily be regarded as Wikipedia policy. To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Sifter-l Archives.

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