On 10/15/07, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 15/10/2007, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 10/15/07 3:27 PM, fredbaud@waterwiki.info at fredbaud@waterwiki.info wrote:
The encyclopedia is the work of the community, its creation. Thus the encyclopedia is dependent on the viability and integrity of the community.
Absolutely, Fred!
Marc
Expect we know that individual bits of the community are expendable.
That is, from a high level view, both true and false.
It's true in the sense that people leave the project and are replaced by normal volunteer work shifting processes. We can replace anyone we lose, essentially.
It's not true to the extent that allowing or sitting passively by during legitimate abuse situations causes harm to both our internal community as a whole (people see "the Foundation" or "English Wikipedia" or "Jimmy" or whoever as not caring) and our reputation outside the project.
It's unfortunately not simple.