[WikiEN-l] assessing

[Ray Saintonge]

David Gerard wrote:
> 2009/9/11 Surreptitiousness <surreptitious.wikipedian at googlemail.com>:
>
> Flaged revs all through would separate "draft" and "public" copies,
> but at the expense of the motivational effects of the working draft
> being live and public.
>
> There is no "finished". It's an eternal present.
>   
>> I tend
>> to find I interact better with people playing the long game.  Even when
>> we disagree, we don't fight about it, because what would be the point.
>> Short game players are a nightmare though. Everything has to be done
>> now! Someone might be watching now! At the end of the day we're a work
>> in progress, and while it is great that the world wants to take us
>> seriously, and it is important that we take ourselves seriously, we have
>> to keep getting across the message that we are a work in progress, and
>> our articles should never be used as a definitive source, but rather a
>> pointer to a better understanding. Or something.
>>     
> It's getting the world to understand that it's a work in progress, I suppose.

The rest of the world sometimes finds it difficult to appreciate that it 
is a part of the world.

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