[Wikipedia-l] Re: sco/fiu-vro in danger..

[Anthere]

Timwi a écrit:
> Brion Vibber wrote:
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>> Maybe whoever told them that could explain it.
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> They have when they did...
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>> It seems a bit odd.
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> Says who?
> 
> I thought it was a very good idea, and to me it's putting Meta to a very 
> good use. So far, I've never really understood the point in meta other 
> than collecting humorous articles and a few philosophical discussions 
> about the Wiki principle which mirror stuff already on MeatBall.
> 
> Timwi

There are two principles in meta, which do not exist on MeatBall. First 
it allows anyone to post (and not people under their real name as in 
MeatBall) and second it allows to do so in any languages (while MeatBall 
is english first of all, french possibly second).

I'll add that Sunir was a bit tired to see so many wikipedians at some 
points, as the experience we were reporting was not the experience of 
the hightest majority of wiki, but the one of a rather unique case. He 
feared this would come to principles being reported being applicable to 
large wikis predominently.
Remember this : 
http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?action=browse&id=WikiLifeCycle&oldid=CommunityLifeCycle

There are some professionals (business) who now hesitate to set up a 
wiki for their firm, as they think "it will be a very small community, 
only a big community can really work on a wiki as wikipedia shows. We 
are not numerous enough".

Just thoughts. I regret we do not hear much more of Sunir any more :-)

anth