<DIV>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.</DIV>
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<DIV>Zoe<BR><BR><B><I>Lars Aronsson <lars@aronsson.se></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">Zoe wrote:<BR>> "self appointed license policemen? I hope *all* of us are license<BR>> policemen, unless we really don't care if the Wikipedia gets shut<BR><BR>It might come as a surprise to you, but some contributors actually<BR>prefer to write new contents rather than *actively* monitoring the<BR>Recent Changes page for possible copyright infringements. Lacking<BR>a scientific census or poll, I would rank user activity by descending<BR>size: 1) Reading, 2) writing, 3) policing, and 4) vandalizing.<BR>We're very happy that activity (3) is bigger than activity (4), but I<BR>also assume that activity (2) is bigger than activity (3). I could be<BR>wrong, and it would be very interesting to see actual numbers if<BR>anybody has tried to measure this.<BR><BR><BR>-- <BR>Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se)<BR>Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se/<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>Wikipedia-l mailing list<BR>Wikipedia-l@wikipedia.org<BR>http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikipedia-l</BLOCKQUOTE><p><br><hr size=1>Do you Yahoo!?<br>
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