On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Tony Sidaway <tonysida...@gmail.com> wrote:
> http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853 > > Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about > the unfriendliness of the environment. It isn't so much that we've > gone out of our way to be unfriendly, but the tool we use to > interact--the wiki, in other words--isn't really very fit for the > purpose. > > Wikis are _supposed_ to invite contributions, but here we seem to have > built a big maze that only frustrates people who in good faith want to > help us to make it better. > > > In this case, Sullivan wasn't a reader. He was a would-be editor trying to maintain an article about a barely notable SEO expert. I've noticed that a lot of critics of Wikipedia began by trying to promote some non-notable cause only to be rebuffed. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
