[WikiEN-l] A challange to those who say the system works

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 4/22/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/22/07, Pilotguy <pilotguy.wikipedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Really, instead of complaining about it, wouldn't it be better to >fix<
> it?
> > I mean, seriously.
>
> Of course - that's one of my issues with Wikipedia's tagging culture -
> that people will spend lots of time doing things like tagging but not
> even attempt to fix the problems they're identifying.
>
> On the other hand, some topics can't be easily sourced without a
> specialist library.
>
> -Matt


Matt addresses a good point. People prefer tagging because it's easy and
fast.
We need ways to encourage people to do the grunt work and reward them for
doing so.
It's a tall order, but changing the wikipedia culture would solve a lot of
problems.

Any ideas on how to get that done?

Mgm