> > Comments from the peanut gallery. I felt like forwarding this > somewhere, so I am. > > Kelly > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: IZAK <simshalom(a)att.net> > Date: Jan 9, 2006 12:04 PM > Subject: Wikipedia e-mail: Bad decision! > To: Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin(a)gmail.com> > > > > Hi Kelly: > When most people log on they are taken to the Main Page, and the > ArbCom vote link should be on EVERY article, putting it on watchlists > marginalizes it, and if you have a rule that users need to be active > for a few months then their vote won't be registered regardless of > what page they come from. At this stage it's more important to educate > new users and the public about an important vote taking place within > Wikipedia than to have the request for MONEY on every page which makes > Wikipedia look greedy after they just raised around $300,000, don't > you think? Get rid of the merchandising and commercializing junk and > mention the ArbCom stuff that is more to the core of what Wikipedia is > about, a participatory effort and not just a scheme to raise money. > Some of us are having trouble writing and editing articles with that > flashing "Dollar sign" on top of every page. I hope you understand the > importance of this. It's about the kind of image Wikipedia wants to > project about itself, an > d someone has made a bad decision here lately it seems to me. > IZAK. > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l(a)Wikipedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l