Well I don't know about you Timwi, but I spend several hours a day working on wikipedia, or wikibooks every day, month in month out for ages now, and I intend on doing it for the foreseeable future. I do this for no payment, and virtually no recognition. Just for the good of mankind.
I am a weirdo!
-----Original Message----- From: Timwi [mailto:timwi@gmx.net] Sent: 30 April 2004 14:07 To: wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Re: The Facebook opens for buisness
mapellegrini@comcast.net wrote:
I thought I'd let you know that the facebook ("Rogue's gallery" as Andrewa humerously called it) is open at [[Wikipedia:Facebook]]. It's a compilation of pictures of our contributors.
The idea itself is pretty good, but the page already demonstrates that it doesn't really work because almost everybody is going to try to be special and either distort their image beyond recognition (e.g. LordSuryaofShropshire) or use something that barely even depicts their self (e.g. Anthère). To a non-Wikipedian, this kind of thing reinforces the belief that Wikipedia is run/controlled by a bunch of weirdos.
Timwi
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