Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/8/11 Marc Riddell <[email protected]>: > > on 8/11/09 4:13 PM, George Herbert at [email protected] wrote: >>> 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... > > 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.
And this sort of attitude is precisely why there *is* a problem. (Sorry, Thomas, but you've managed to espouse the prevailing attitude marvelously succinctly.) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
