Szerkesztő:Prinzdani/signpost 2007 12

A WikiWorld Comic minden héten vicces kis képes cikkeket közöl. Ebben a számban a Wilhelm Scream című képregény látható. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wilhelm_comic.jpg

A Wikipédián is elkezdett terjedni a pletyka, hogy meghalt Sinbad, az ismert színész. Miután a hírt cáfolták, a szerkesztők gyorsan javították az elkövetett hibát, a cikk ma már beszámol a kacsáról is. Maga Sindab így kommentált: "I wish that people would've called me back like this when I was alive. I gotta die more often. I'm writing a movie about this now... Seriously, my death is gonna be my comeback."

Cary Bass (Bastique) önkéntes koordinátor lesz a Wikimédia Alapítványnál a floridai St. Petersburgban. Erik Möller igazgatósági tag így kommentált: "The entire Board and Staff has met Cary this weekend in St. Petersburg, and I believe it's fair to say that we're all very happy to have him onboard. ... Hiring Cary is part of our long term commitment to making sure that the global volunteer community will be involved not just in project-level work, but also in all aspects of what our organization is doing. Expect some exciting initiatives from him in the near future. :-)"

Jimbo Wales reverted the merger of Verifiability, No original research and Reliable sources into Attribution this week, saying:

   Merging "Wikipedia:Verifiability with Wikipedia:No original research, while also streamlining Wikipedia:Reliable sources into a simpler FAQ at WP:ATT/FAQ" was a big mistake, and the result is completely incoherent. This needs to be reverted immdiately [sic] because it is just wrong. It is bad policy all around, and this is not the right way to make policy.

   Verifiability and No Original Research are conceptually distinct: they are different things, not the same things. Reliable sources, too, is quite different from the other two, although arguably a subset of Verifiability. The resulting confusion is apparent in many arguments around Wikipedia, as editors are getting confused about two very different concepts.

   There is no logical reason for the merge, as the information contained in this unified policy can be more sensibly separated back out into the two separate policies. As a first step, I am removing the claim on [Wikipedia:Attribution] that is supercedes [sic] the other two, and restoring the other two to their rightful place in the pantheon of Wikipedia.

In response to criticism over the change, Wales said, "I think that it probably was a more or less accurate merger of the three separate policies. But merging three separate policies into one, even when that change is not intended to make any actual policy change, is not trivial and in this particular a monumentally bad idea. ... We must not merge these separate concepts, or we have no means of distinguishing them."

In an unrelated change, the semi-protection policy has been merged into the protection policy, which now contains information and policy on all forms of protection, including cascading protection.