On 2/18/06, Fred Bauder <fredbaud(a)ctelco.net> wrote:
> I think to a degree Wikipedia has reached that
stage Usenet did, where
> suddenly the influx of new people is beyond the rate at which they
> tend to acclimate to the older culture. There are so many newbies
> that a newbie-culture can develop without having to join the existing
> one.
Is this true? It's a fairly bold statement...is there evidence for it?
> My thoughts: move all userboxes to user: space,
so that they are
> obviously not official and not part of the encyclopedia project
> proper. Then ignore them except for awful examples.
That seems reasonable - encyclopaedic templates and userboxes should
probably not be mixed. We could always create a "user template:"
namespace too.
Steve