On 7/2/05, daniwo59@aol.com daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Nevertheless, we have recently seen quite a bit of game-playing on Wikipedia. If it is not stopped now, it will continue to grow.
< As for referring to the people who oppose these games and
tournaments as "killjoys," this is a very upsetting ad hominem attack.
"You keep using that word. I do not think it means, what you think it means."
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Killjoy
By the way, if you are vehemetly against these games, or people playing N degrees of separation, do you really want to be associated with the Department of Fun?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:FUN#Members
Jimbo has offered a place on Wikicities for people to play. He has even
I'm not sure that intense game-playing on the wiki is a great thing. And we can all imagine marginal ways in which doing anything but concretely building the encyclopedia -- editing one's own user page, adding to BJAODN, fooling around with personal CSS or javascript settings, chatting with friends about non-encyclopedic subjects -- is 'wasteful'.
But the interesting question is, to what extent being able to relax and take a break on-wiki *is* beneficial to the project. Perhaps we can discuss that; does leaving content-free "Welcome back!" messages for others indicate one is not interested in the project's goals?