2009/8/11 Marc Riddell <[email protected]>: > on 8/11/09 4:13 PM, George Herbert at [email protected] wrote: > >> SilkTork has started closing down and summarizing the poll results. >> >> https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Wikipedia:Civility/Poll >> >> I am still reviewing the statistics and sum total comments, but some >> takeaways I already have - >> >> 0. It's a problem. >> 1. We're not enforcing consistently at all, and that's hurting us. >> 2. We're BITEing new users. >> > Is anyone really surprised at this? On this very List people are constantly > bragging about how wonderful Wikipedia is; focusing exclusively on how big > it is. Yet completely ignoring how screwed up the culture is. It's like a > company's media people pushing how good their product is, and how big their > company is, and completely avoiding how poorly their workers are treated - > while those in the executive suite are focused on trying to persuade people > to invest money in them. Arrogance without wisdom is hubris. This is a > formula for disaster.
Wikipedia is a project and a community but, above all, it is an encyclopaedia. It is an encyclopaedia that a lot of people find very useful. Our system is working. There is certainly room for improvement, but I don't see this disaster you speak of. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
