漸進主義

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コミュニティ: 反ウィキ; 衝突駆動視点; 似非コミュニティ; ウィキ文化; ウィキ心
ウィキ過程: ウィキ流; ウィキ進化論; 権力構造; ウィキ無政府主義; ウィキ官僚主義; ウィキ民主主義; ウィキ民主政治; ウィキ独裁主義; ウィキ連邦主義; ウィキ階級主義; ウィキ実力主義; ウィキ個人主義; ウィキ寡頭主義; ウィキ金権政治; ウィキ共和主義; ウィキ懐疑主義; ウィキ技術政治
共同作業: 反派閥主義; 派閥主義
社交: 外部百科主義; 内外中庸百科主義; メタ百科主義
全体的なコンテンツの構造: 文書参照主義; 反文書参照主義; 分類主義; 構造主義
百科事典の規格: 削除主義; 削包中庸主義; 排除主義; 包摂主義; 明解主義; 精度＝懐疑論者
情報価値: 本質主義; 漸進主義
記事の規模: 統合主義; 分割主義
正確さ水準: 到達主義; 即座主義
その他: 反超ウィキペディア主義; メディアウィキ主義; 新削除主義; 超ウィキペディア主義; 分散ウィキ主義; ウィキ分離主義; 転送主義

Incrementalism is a philosophy held by Wikipedians who believe that with the incremental growth in the number of Wikipedia articles over time, items which were once deemed to be insufficiently notable to have articles may eventually prove notable enough for an entry.

Incrementalists believe that an article may be deemed inappropriate due to the lack of notability of its subject when Wikipedia's scope is small. As the scope of Wikipedia increases, however, it may no longer seem inappropriately non-notable. As such, incrementalist Wikipedians would expect to change their attitude to specific types of article over time from being more deletionist to being more inclusionist, and would also expect that Wikipedia's notability requirements would similarly change.

For these reasons, incrementalists would not be likely to see Wikipedia's notability standards as being set in stone, but would expect them to change with the size of Wikipedia. It would seem strange for them for a Wikipedia with several hundred articles to have the same standards for notability to one with several tens of thousands of articles, or for one with several tens of thousands of articles to have the same standards for notability as one with over a million articles.

In terms of the inclusion or deletion of articles, incrementalists may act more like deletionists – or at least mergists – when a Wikipedia is small and more like inclusionists when it grows larger. An incrementalist's vote might often reflect a feeling of "delete or merge now, but with no objection to re-creation as a separate article at a later time".

Incrementalists thus fall between deletionists and inclusionists, understanding that "Wiki is not paper", but also wishing to avoid fancruft at least until such time as more important articles are in place. Articles on people, places, and concepts of little note may be perfectly acceptable for Wikipedia in this view, but only as later articles – priority should always be given to more notable subjects for articles where possible.

Incrementalism shares some factors with inclusionism and eventualism and with the legal standard of presumption of innocence. An article, as it improves, may show that a subject is worthy of inclusion at an earlier date than seemed likely from its stub. It is worth noting, however, that some stubs when further edited may simply reveal their subjects to be of very little note. An incrementalist would have no qualms about the deletion of these articles.

Incrementalism is largely consistent with eventualism, though the two have different reasons for their similar views. Whereas an eventualist believes that Wikipedia's worth increases with time and movement towards a never-reached completeness, an incrementalist believes that the same processes will inevitably lead to information once judged as non-notable becoming seen as more notable. As such, it is quite possible for a wikipedian to be both eventualist and incrementalist in their views.

As always, the dangers of factionalism should be noted, as should the likelihood that many Wikipedians may be incrementalist on some occasions, and inclusionist or deletionist on others.

漸進主義

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