On 3/31/07, MacGyverMagic/Mgm macgyvermagic@gmail.com wrote:
People work on Wikipedia because they enjoy it. As soon as you start forcing responsibilities the fun factor is gone.
Yes. Absolutely, it is totally unreasonable to expect our volunteers to do anything at all.
This is the core, underlying attitude that dooms Wikipedia to mediocrity. Thousands of volunteer projects exist worldwide that places often quite strenuous obligations on their volunteers. (Think Habitat for Humanity.) And yet these projects survive, even thrive. Wikipedia already has a good core of volunteers who are willing to do as requested. We need to stop pandering to the self-centered lazy "volunteers" who will "only do what is fun" and instead target the committed volunteer who is willing to do the hard stuff that needs to be done.
Kelly