On 04/11/2007, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
That's probably the best thing I've read by a relative newcomer in quite some time. Or maybe it's just nice to hear someone talk about building an encyclopedia for once.
One can forget at times that the encyclopedia is the justification for the community, not the other way around.
(Not that Wikipedians aren't fun to hang around with. c.f. one pub conversation a couple of months ago with three en:wp regulars and one normal person, with us throwing around fabulously erudite historical trivia and WP jargon with the normal person looking increasingly boggled. It's nice to meet people whose brains naturally encrust with the sort of thing you'll see by hitting "Random page" a hundred times.)
- d.