Zoney wrote:
On 08/05/07, Matthew Brown <morven(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
We're not professional. Except for a tiny
bunch of people who work
for the Foundation, we're all volunteers and our time is not
especially coordinated. Wikipedia is what it is, and part of that is
that we've grown faster than our organization has.
The project should be managed professionally if it is indeed a serious
project.
Absolutely not!!!
Otherwise it's all just a bit of a larf and
it'll eventually come
crashing down.
Had we been so professional from the beginning we would never have risen
high enough to be able to come crashing down.
However, the project *is* taken seriously by those of
us
involved, and attempts to pass itself off as a serious endeavour. Indeed
that mostly works, and so a large section of the media and the public take
the project seriously (maybe they shouldn't).
Maybe they shouldn't indeed, but they do. We take it seriously because
we believe, and not because seriousness is an end in itself.
Seriousness without soul is pomposity.
Ec