> Well, here's an odd thought. If Wikipedia dies, something to do with > our community will probably be the reason.
I agree with you. Unfortunately, I think this is the case. What will happen if the in fighting continues? Emily On Aug 12, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Andrew Gray wrote: > 2009/8/11 Thomas Dalton <[email protected]>: >> 2009/8/11 Marc Riddell <[email protected]>: >>> Thank you, Thomas, you just made my point. This is exactly the >>> type of focus >>> and denial I was speaking of. >> >> I'm not denying we have a problem with civility. I got desysopped for >> a civility block the community and ArbCom objected to. What I'm >> denying is that this problem is going to lead it disaster. There is >> absolutely no evidence of that. > > Well, here's an odd thought. If Wikipedia dies, something to do with > our community will probably be the reason. > > Everything else, we seem to have escaped. We're mostly out of the > funding trap; we're not going to have to go offline for lack of money > unless the Foundation *really* drop the ball. We've avoided being > sucked into any horribly fatal lawsuits, and it looks like we've > positioned ourselves to keep doing so. There aren't any obvious > looming technical problems, or catastrophic holes in the IP model we > rely on. Barring a freak accident losing the datacenter and a few > months undumped work, Wikipedia has reached the stage where it isn't > going to vanish one night due to something unfortunate. > > But this, this could do it. A breakdown in civility is a breakdown of > community; a sufficiently comprehensive breakdown of the community > will destroy the project, simply because it's now too big to be > maintainable without that large and active community. That's not to > say this will happen, of course; I don't think it will. But it's not > implausible, to imagine us wasting away under a gradual growth of > people who just don't want to play nice and don't see any benefit in > it. > > Like I say, I wish we had an effective way of solving it. We can't > direct one centrally, that's for sure. > > -- > - Andrew Gray > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
