From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
[mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tony Sidaway
Sent: Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:25
To: English Wikipedia
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Userbox fads
On 1/5/06, Peter Mackay <peter.mackay(a)bigpond.com> wrote:
> From: wikien-l-bounces(a)Wikipedia.org
> [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Garion1000
>
> On 1/5/06, Geoff Burling <llywrch(a)agora.rdrop.com> wrote:
> > . People of the same POV have always found each other on
> Wikipedia, &
> > Userboxes are hardly a powerful new tool to accomplish this.
>
> But userboxes makes it a lot easier to do so. Look it two
AFD's. The
one for
some catholic encyclopedians and the gay rights in iraq
article.
So what are you saying? It should be *hard* for Wikipedians to find
others with similar interests?
Well it shouldn't be so absurdly easy that it fosters campaigning.
Campaigning for what, precisely?
This is an encyclopedia, not a dating service.
It seems to me that Wikipedia is very good as an encyclopaedia compared with
everything else on the web, and very poor as a dating service, blog site,
chess-playing site etc when compared to other sites. Do people really come
here for these secondary reasons when there are other, better places
available?
Peter (Skyring)