[WikiEN-l] What is happening to the community

[Charlotte Webb]

On 3/6/08, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> Doesn't matter, we can just draft in new populations - probably of higher
> quality than the current population, too.

Yay, meat-puppets! No, seriously I've tried to introduce new people to
Wikipedia, but the invariable response was "looks pretty stupid".

The ability to motivate others has never been a personal strength of
mine, and the ability to keep people from quitting in disgust has
never been a strength of the project.

But we should still aspire to do both.

—C.W.