[WikiEN-l] Is Wikipedia dying?

[Charles Matthews]

Surreptitiousness wrote:
> So, how 
> do you fix the underlying problems?  You roll your sleeves up and fix 
> them.  Sofixit. The underlying problem is actually that Wikipedia 
> suffers from some sort of bias towards pop culture. Now where I sit, the 
> people who make this complaint are the sort of people who could actually 
> correct that bias, so I'm always thinking to myself, "sofixit". But 
> that's me.
>
>   
"Sofixit" is a good enough baseline for encouraging participation. It 
happens that when COI is involved it may not be the best advice (you are 
advised, I suppose, to remove only defamatory statements about your own 
biography, and leave things that you'd prefer not to be there or are 
somewhat inaccurate, participating on the talk page and/or using an OTRS 
complaint to draw attention). I think it is worthy saying this: people 
who object only to weaknesses in WP that have a direct personal impact 
on themselves are not really the ideal recruits: they are natural users 
of OTRS, not natural encyclopedists. Since many readers of WP fall 
somewhere between classic Wikipedians, and people having a particular 
beef where they are in some way vested, "sofixit" still has a definite 
role to play. I wonder how best to put "sofixit thoughtfully" which is 
what we really require.

Charles