[Wikipedia-l] Re: please support offsite imags

[Zoe]

Not at all a surprise to me, and I certainly hope that we do spend most of our time working on not only new articles, but making the articles that are there even better.  Mine included.  I don't know why you feel you have to make this personal, but I think I can probably match my usefulness to the project against yours. Zoe

Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:Zoe wrote:
> "self appointed license policemen? I hope *all* of us are license
> policemen, unless we really don't care if the Wikipedia gets shut

It might come as a surprise to you, but some contributors actually
prefer to write new contents rather than *actively* monitoring the
Recent Changes page for possible copyright infringements. Lacking
a scientific census or poll, I would rank user activity by descending
size: 1) Reading, 2) writing, 3) policing, and 4) vandalizing.
We're very happy that activity (3) is bigger than activity (4), but I
also assume that activity (2) is bigger than activity (3). I could be
wrong, and it would be very interesting to see actual numbers if
anybody has tried to measure this.


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Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se/

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