Timwi wrote:
mapellegrini(a)comcast.net wrote:
I thought I'd let you know that the facebook
("Rogue's gallery" as
Andrewa humerously called it) is open at [[Wikipedia:Facebook]]. It's
a compilation of pictures of our contributors.
The idea itself is pretty good, but the page already demonstrates that
it doesn't really work because almost everybody is going to try to be
special and either distort their image beyond recognition (e.g.
LordSuryaofShropshire) or use something that barely even depicts their
self (e.g. Anthère). To a non-Wikipedian, this kind of thing
reinforces the belief that Wikipedia is run/controlled by a bunch of
weirdos.
I was going to put up a picture of me in a tux, but now it's clear
that I need to stage a photo where I'm sitting in a leather-bound
chair in front of a wall of books, wearing a tweed jacket and
smoking a pipe while studying Hesiod's ''Theogony'' in the original
Greek.
That should be enough to counteract at least ten weirdos, although
I'm sure there will be people who will object to the pipe, the
Eurocentrism, the DWM-centrism, the paganism, etc.
:-) :-)
Stan