Talk:Wikitorial

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I am interested in this area as a place to discuss the project publicly. I have heard that Jimbo Wales is going to be advising them on their next attempt, but actually I think that process can be facilitated here.

What I thought was interesting was that there were several known wiki folk at the LA Times Wikitorial, and it got me thinking about the peer group surrounding wiki culture. Because wiki is so easy, here was a high level experiment with virtually no support from the wiki community, except to sit there and watch the train wreck.

Some of the areas of concern for me were:


 * Navigation system was useless.
 * Pages were randomly locked down.
 * No dedicated administrators/editors, although I believe that was working itself out.
 * No structured vision of what this might be. (What kind of pages did they want.  Just editorial pages, or support pages also?

I am interested in this discussion for practical reasons (how to get wikitorials back up) and for larger ideas about how the wiki community can organize itself in the wake of this, and future, experiment(s). -- Mark Dilley

p.s. - I think that this "Jimbo Wales, founder of Wikipedia, was one of the early contributors to the new Wikitorial which inspired a counterpoint editorial, redirections and much discussion." should be removed, it doesn't really add anything to the document side of this.

Request people to volunteer for being the wiki editor for an hour. 24 people out there that want to be an editor?

Someone needs to fix the links... they're not valid anymore. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.233.217.21 (talk) 23:48, 5 January 2009 (UTC)

Remove? I included the information about Jimbo Wales contributing to the Wikitorial to show that experienced Wikipedians were participating in the experiment. Kember 04:08, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)