On 12/10/2007, charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com wrote:
So I propose you first inform a couple of hundred hardened speedy nominators, prodders and AfD regulars that this is not yet official. Create articles, youse bums!
I just wrote a long chewy email to an outside correspondent arguing that a surprising amount of our problems are due to people not writing enough articles. Not because we don't have enough - we have huge amounts of them - but because so many of our most active and ubiquitous users are massively and fundamentally disconnected from the fundamental activity of the project.
Vandal-fighting and link-fixing and spam-weeding is all well and good, but unless you set aside an hour every now and again to read something, consider it, synthesise it, distill that down and write a nice clear encyclopedic summary... well, you're going to end up forgetting why we do what we do.
It might be a trivial topic. It might not be of much use to the encyclopedia, all things considered. But it'll put your own work in context, and *you'll* be much more use to the encyclopedia as a result.
(This has been your dreary-Friday-afternoon manifesto. Go forth and annotate.)