It's not about them wasting their time, as that is not for us to decide.
It's not the way the community expects the hosting services provided by
Wikipedia to be used. It's also not what we want people to associate
Wikipedia with. That, in my opinion, is the point.
Ian [[User: Poeloq]]
On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 14:44 -0800, Steven Walling wrote:
I think that's excessive use of userspace. It has
absolutely nothing to do
with building an encyclopedia, and it's not an effective community-building
tool like the Facebook. Little wonder we have articles on core topics that
sit unimproved when people waste their time like that.
On Jan 19, 2008 6:12 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 19/01/2008, George Herbert
<george.herbert(a)gmail.com> wrote:
User making a choose-your-own-adventure under
their userpage:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PrincessKirlia/Shop/The_book
New? Uncyclopedia has an entire namespace devoted to
choose-your-own-adventures:
http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Game:Game
Probably should be politely discouraged, and
pointed at a free web
hosting company that offers wikis, but I'm tempted to let them alone
and see what they do with it.
Games Wikia (
http://games.wikia.com/wiki/Wikigames) was created
because of people using Wikipedia for play-by-wiki games.
- d.
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