If we saved one person's life, at least to me, that's worth more than
writing a thousand featured articles. Things like this put things like
"building an encyclopedia" into perspective....
On 4/7/07, Steve Summit <scs(a)eskimo.com> wrote:
Moreschi wrote:
OK, sure, but when you have community for the
sake of community that's
the
sort of stuff you can expect to put up with.
Wikipedia has an
encyclopedic
purpose distinct from that: we are not supposed
to be collection of
self-help services, suicide prevention, and social services all rolled
into one.
And for the most part, we're not. But turns out that *you can't
escape the community stuff*. Any time you get a bunch of people
working together on something, the community aspects are going
to surface, whether you want them to or not. You can try to
mitigate them, but you can't eliminate them, and if you try too
hard, you'll royally piss people off, to everyone's detriment.
If you haven't read "A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy", do so:
http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html .
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