On 10/26/04 1:32 PM, "Nicholas Knight" <nknight(a)runawaynet.com> wrote:
Mark Richards wrote:
encyclopedia. We are removing content simply
because
(mostly) American techies think it is unimportant.
*cough* I'm an American techie, and I very much disagree with some of
the stuff that's getting deleted, thank you. I daresay experienced
techies are probably among the least likely people to advocate
deletionism, having an inherent predisposition toward being packrats and
a great appreciation of the fact that modern technology renders concerns
about storage space and related issues largely moot.
That description accurately describes some techies. Other techies have an
inherent predisposition toward being neat freaks and a great appreciation of
the fact that modern technology allows people to be completely disorganized
and can make effective, efficient communication and knowledge compilation
extremely difficult without proper constraints.
Let's just call it the sysadmin vs. the hacker mentality.
Both mentalities are correct. In my opinion, the proper application to
Wikipedia is to put constraints on the complexity of individual entries but
not on the scope of the overall project.