On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 7:56 PM, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853
Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about the unfriendliness of the environment. It isn't so much that we've gone out of our way to be unfriendly, but the tool we use to interact--the wiki, in other words--isn't really very fit for the purpose.
Wikis are _supposed_ to invite contributions, but here we seem to have built a big maze that only frustrates people who in good faith want to help us to make it better.
In this case, Sullivan wasn't a reader. He was a would-be editor trying to maintain an article about a barely notable SEO expert.
I've noticed that a lot of critics of Wikipedia began by trying to promote some non-notable cause only to be rebuffed.