On Mar 10, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:
What about the vast majority of our readers who have needs that are
being ignored while certain individuals ride their private hobby
horses?
Er, that is what I do already by writing about the things I find to be
interesting. That is the hobby horse I ride. Why is this wrong?
-- mav
The illusion of the growth phase of branded anarchy is that the people
will just roll in and nothing needs to be done, if everyone just does
what they like all will be well. This is an illusion, the very phase
that wikipedia is going through right now requires an attention to the
next phase - where retention, and not recruitment, will drive success
of the project.
There have been hundreds of messages about small language wikipedias,
and a handful about the social structure and credibility of wikipedai.
Starting a wikipedia in (fill in the blank language) is far less
important than dealing with credibility issues, and with the
interaction problems in wikipedia, and with ideas to promote wikipedia
to the larger world.