I think that's excessive use of userspace. It has absolutely nothing to do with building an encyclopedia, and it's not an effective community-building tool like the Facebook. Little wonder we have articles on core topics that sit unimproved when people waste their time like that.
On Jan 19, 2008 6:12 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 19/01/2008, George Herbert george.herbert@gmail.com wrote:
User making a choose-your-own-adventure under their userpage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PrincessKirlia/Shop/The_book
New? Uncyclopedia has an entire namespace devoted to choose-your-own-adventures: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Game:Game
Probably should be politely discouraged, and pointed at a free web hosting company that offers wikis, but I'm tempted to let them alone and see what they do with it.
Games Wikia (http://games.wikia.com/wiki/Wikigames) was created because of people using Wikipedia for play-by-wiki games.
- d.
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