On 15/10/2010 22:36, MuZemike wrote:
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That comes to my question regarding whether or not we
are here to build
an online community or an online encyclopedia. Should we focus outwards
toward the reading/viewing audience, or should we focus inwards
towards the
editors?
It was settled early on that we are writing an encyclopedia. Before I
started editing. What has happened since then? Well, we have had some
divas on the site who have thought that we should focus on things that
are basically all about them rather than the encyclopedia. And this has
been a strategy partially successful in its own terms. But fundamentally
I don't think such people have won the argument, however much harder
they may have made it to see the "community" as primarily a working
environment. That's what it remains, a highly interactive place in which
to do voluntary work on an encyclopedia.
Charles