On 4/22/07, Matthew Brown morven@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/22/07, Pilotguy pilotguy.wikipedia@gmail.com wrote:
Really, instead of complaining about it, wouldn't it be better to >fix<
it?
I mean, seriously.
Of course - that's one of my issues with Wikipedia's tagging culture - that people will spend lots of time doing things like tagging but not even attempt to fix the problems they're identifying.
On the other hand, some topics can't be easily sourced without a specialist library.
-Matt
Matt addresses a good point. People prefer tagging because it's easy and fast. We need ways to encourage people to do the grunt work and reward them for doing so. It's a tall order, but changing the wikipedia culture would solve a lot of problems.
Any ideas on how to get that done?
Mgm