On 21 December 2010 23:55, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:04 PM, wiki doc.wikipedia@ntlworld.com wrote:
But..... where we are in competition with others is for the time of the undergraduate/graduate who sits down to squander some time on the internet.
I've had similar thoughts, but more general, thinking that the internet in general has more potential for people to "waste their time" than ever before. How many scientific theorems and great books
I was chatting with User:Ciphergoth the other week about getting people involved in stuff. He occasionally asks people "if you see a typo in Wikipedia, do you fix it?" And people *just don't do that*. This is something that needs remedying.
- d.