Hoi,
When you divide people up in groups, when you single out the ones "most
valuable", you in effect divide the community. Whatever you base your
metrics on, there will be sound arguments to deny the point of view. When it
is about the number of edits, it is clear to the pure encyclopedistas that
most of the policy wonks have not supported what is the "real" aim of the
project.
When you label groups of people, you divide them and it is exactly the
egalitarian aspect that makes the community thrive. It is when people put
themselves apart when friction makes an appearance. A good example is the
speed used for mindless speedy deletions as was documented in an episode of
"Not the Wikipedia Weekly".
So it is not that I am not interested, it is that I find it a fundamentally
bad idea that I am "snarky" about it..
Thanks,
GerardM
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/snarky
2008/10/22 Liam Wyatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>
> More to the point:
> What is the point to your agressive reply? If you're not interested in this
> thread then you are not obliged to be snarky about it.
> -Liam
>
> On 22/10/2008, at 4:10, "Gerard Meijssen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
> Hoi,
> What is the point to the question, are regular contributors entitled to
> wear a halo or will they get wings to go with the halo ?
> Thanks,
> GerardM
>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Ziko van Dijk < <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> From time to time I ask myself (and others) what is a "regular
>> contributor" to a Wikipedia language edition. According to "Tell us
>> about your Wikipedia" the definitions are quite different.
>> At eo.WP I once checked a week long (in this August) who was making
>> edits, and I calculated a "regular contributor" if someone
>> * made at least one edit in that week
>> * obviously speaks Esperanto (is no "foreign helper" like someone who
>> does Interwiki linking)
>> * made his first edit at least six months ago
>> * made at least ten edits at all
>> My result was: 71, compared to 141 "active users" and 50 "very active
>> users" (Wikimedia Statistics, May 2008).
>> What do you think about this definition?
>> Kind regards
>> Ziko van Dijk
>>
>>
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>> Ziko van Dijk
>> NL-Silvolde
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