Zoney wrote:
On 08/05/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
We're not professional. Except for a tiny bunch of people who work for the Foundation, we're all volunteers and our time is not especially coordinated. Wikipedia is what it is, and part of that is that we've grown faster than our organization has.
The project should be managed professionally if it is indeed a serious project.
Absolutely not!!!
Otherwise it's all just a bit of a larf and it'll eventually come crashing down.
Had we been so professional from the beginning we would never have risen high enough to be able to come crashing down.
However, the project *is* taken seriously by those of us involved, and attempts to pass itself off as a serious endeavour. Indeed that mostly works, and so a large section of the media and the public take the project seriously (maybe they shouldn't).
Maybe they shouldn't indeed, but they do. We take it seriously because we believe, and not because seriousness is an end in itself. Seriousness without soul is pomposity.
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