From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tony Sidaway Sent: Thursday, 5 January 2006 21:25 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Userbox fads
On 1/5/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Garion1000
On 1/5/06, Geoff Burling llywrch@agora.rdrop.com wrote:
. People of the same POV have always found each other on
Wikipedia, &
Userboxes are hardly a powerful new tool to accomplish this.
But userboxes makes it a lot easier to do so. Look it two
AFD's. The
one for some catholic encyclopedians and the gay rights in iraq article.
So what are you saying? It should be *hard* for Wikipedians to find others with similar interests?
Well it shouldn't be so absurdly easy that it fosters campaigning.
Campaigning for what, precisely?
This is an encyclopedia, not a dating service.
It seems to me that Wikipedia is very good as an encyclopaedia compared with everything else on the web, and very poor as a dating service, blog site, chess-playing site etc when compared to other sites. Do people really come here for these secondary reasons when there are other, better places available?
Peter (Skyring)