From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of John Lee
I think we're all here to have fun. I know I enjoy clerking for the arbcom and writing articles -- otherwise I wouldn't be clerking and I wouldn't have 20+ featured articles to my name. What's wrong is having fun without involving the encyclopedia at all -- i.e. spending all or most (>90%) of your time userboxing. I firmly believe these kinds of users are in the minority, however. There are many userbox fanatics who do great work around here, some of whom are admins ([[User:Firefox]] and [[User:Karmafist]] come to mind).
I certainly don't exclude fun from my idea of Wikipedia. Heaven forfend we should be a race of dour, grey-faced editors humourlessly churning out articles. But when it's a *choice* between having fun and writing an encyclopaedia, fun *must* come second. It's the gravy on the meat, the icing on the top, the pom-pom on the beret. Not essential, but well, fun.
Peter (Skyring)