Matt R wrote:
--- "Jimmy (Jimbo) Wales" jwales@wikia.com wrote:
To me, it is quite interesting in an abstract way that people are dying in (for example) Sudan this morning, and other people have a paid job which involves writing to me to complain about the name of a body of water. One should think that there might be more important things to do in the world.
Of course, a lot of Wikipedia editing disputes could be analysed in a similar manner. I'm sometimes appalled at the way I will get disproportionately annoyed about, say, a minor WP spelling issue, but remain coldly indifferent to suffering around the world. I'm not suggesting for a minute that attending to the minutiae of Wikipedia articles isn't worthwhile [1]. Rather, I merely conjecture that that when we find ourselves experiencing WikiStress, one approach might be to ponder the serious problems that affect the majority of the world who can't access Wikipedia even if they wanted to.
-- Matt (User:Matt Crypto)
[1] I reserve judgment on Pokemon ;-)
Perhaps you get annoyed about this minor matter because it has some effect on you directly, while the suffering in the world is not YOUR personal suffering. This is a perfectly normal human condition, IMHO. I suffer from this affliction also.
TBSDY