On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:46 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/4/21 Chet Hoover chet.hoover@yahoo.com:
Citizendium can just hang on, and stick around, because it's far less
about its success over Wikipedia than it is about an environment in which serious-minded people with the werewithal can write about important subjects.
So it's all about the writing? I would have though the important thing was the reading. Wikipedia is all about spreading free knowledge - if no-one reads what you write, there is no point writing it.
On Wed, Apr 22, 2009 at 9:58 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Yes. This is a fallacy we see over and over: "Wikipedia would be so much better if you did X for the writers." Whereas that doesn't serve the readers, so is why we don't do it.
"If no one reads what you write, there is no point writing it." Is that something most Wikipedians would agree with? There really ought to be a Wikiversity course on this stuff. I think it's essential reading for anyone who wants to be a Wikipedian.