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StackOverflow has a (sightly?) different bureaucratic structure that I can't see or evaluate for fairness, but I still make the occasional anonymous contributio
by irq-1 12y ago
StackOverflow has a (sightly?) different bureaucratic structure that I can't see or evaluate for fairness, but I still make the occasional anonymous contribution. I know from past experience with Wikipedia and others, that I'll eventually look up a few of those contributions and see how they fared. _Based on too little data_ I'll decide whether it's worth contributing in the future.
(I'm not going to make an account, there's no point in arguing that I should, and the same is true for the majority of potential contributors.)
Statistical information about edits, reverts, accounts and subjects, etc... could be a way forward. Published and standardized stats built-in to the Wikimedia software could let visitors peek into the culture and bureaucracy of a wiki. Lone operators like yourself, could also see who's contributing and who's trolling.