On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 3:17 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 4 June 2012 13:57, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: >> AIUI, weekdays office hours are our peak access period, and Wikipedia >> generally isn't blocked in offices the way Facebook, etc. often are. >> This suggests it's good for *something* economically. > > It's good for lowering the productivity of offices! I occasionally > look things up on Wikipedia at work that are actually about my work, > but usually it's to settle a debate that has nothing at all to do with > work.
Even then it could be good for productivity, by decreasing the amount of time you and your colleagues spend over looking up who is right in their debate (although probably that gained time will be used for more debates, so the net effect on productivity will be close to zero). -- André Engels, andreeng...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
