On 16 November 2012 13:11, Andreas Kolbe <[email protected]> wrote: > The supreme irony here is that Wikipedia set out to be open, in contrast to > the ivory tower of academe. Yet over the space of a decade, Wikipedia has > become so involved, and its policy so impenetrable and contradictory, that > people are now making a living from guiding others through it.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immune_system#Layered_defense . It's about living in the real world. It is quite possible for policies to contradict each other, or be in tension. I don't regard this as one of our major issues, however. Charles _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
