[WikiEN-l] What is happening to the community

[Voice of All]

Yeah, those are some things that can be *very* frustrating.


Ron Ritzman wrote:
> 
> On 3/5/08, SlimVirgin <slimvirgin at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>  Erik is right. What is happening to the community is the real issue.
>>  Even when I joined Wikipedia as a relative latecomer in 2004, the
>>  sense of community and shared purpose was still palpable. People fell
>>  out, of course, and made mistakes, but AGF wasn't an empty gesture or
>>  a rule we blindly followed. We assumed good faith because we were all
>>  here to give of our time, without payment or any benefit other than a
>>  feeling of satisfaction, to produce something that might help to
>>  educate and enlighten other people. In exchange, we hoped that others
>>  would educate and enlighten us. It was the most inspiring idea I'd
>>  ever come across, that people all over the world could unite to
>>  benefit each other in that way.
>>
>>  But suddenly Wikipedia became very popular,
> 
> Maybe this is the gist of the problem. AGF and all that good stuff are
> values developed on small wikis and it probably still works that way
> on other wikis like meatball. It may still work here too on the
> project and article level. The drawback with this is when other
> wikipedians who you don't know from Adam drop out of the sky and
> nominate your article for deletion, challenge the fair use rationales
> of your images, remove your spoiler tags, or otherwise challenge
> something in your article based on some policy discussion made
> "somewhere else" by people who you don't know.
> 
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