David Gerard wrote: > 2009/9/11 Surreptitiousness <[email protected]>: > > Flaged revs all through would separate "draft" and "public" copies, > but at the expense of the motivational effects of the working draft > being live and public. > > There is no "finished". It's an eternal present. > >> I tend >> to find I interact better with people playing the long game. Even when >> we disagree, we don't fight about it, because what would be the point. >> Short game players are a nightmare though. Everything has to be done >> now! Someone might be watching now! At the end of the day we're a work >> in progress, and while it is great that the world wants to take us >> seriously, and it is important that we take ourselves seriously, we have >> to keep getting across the message that we are a work in progress, and >> our articles should never be used as a definitive source, but rather a >> pointer to a better understanding. Or something. >> > It's getting the world to understand that it's a work in progress, I suppose.
The rest of the world sometimes finds it difficult to appreciate that it is a part of the world. Ec _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
