Birgitte, I have greatly enjoyed all of your replies in this thread; this one in particular. Thank you for sharing.
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 2:37 AM, <birgitte...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I simply see the bigger concern to be: What if we don't add 1,000 new > curators who care to learn how to interpret copyright law and 3,000 new > contributors who are willing respond to RfCs and participate in peer review? Yes. > If the underlying concern is that there are not enough veteran editors > willing to educate them, or that these newcomers won't conform to our ways > sufficently. Well then maybe the newcomers can educate us instead. We are > great at some things we have done, but we are crap at a whole bunch of other > things. And was all trial and error to begin with! Yes! > obligation to pitch in. I am certain SJ means community building as > working together on a common objective and necessary education of > any contributors new to some area of the wiki, rather than socializing > for it's own sake. Proofread of the month at Wikisource is probably a > good example... Along these lines, I personally find community to be > supremely motivating. < < I wanted to help the hard-working and helpful *people* I observed on < the wikis long before I understood the full implications of the project. Right. Good faith collaboration, mentorship and inspiration are essential to many contributors and many parts of the projects. > I mean the collective of people, > the collective which also sees > this Marvelous Possibility > which barely resembles the feeble attempts > we have managed so far. I feel > this collective belongs a little bit to me > and owns a little bit of me in return. I just printed this out and taped it to my monitor. SJ _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
