This is a volunteer project. If the people who participate in this wanted to be working on these articles, they'd already be doing that. Getting rid of this doesn't mean they'll spend that time working articles, not in the least.
yes, this is volunteer. People can do what they like. But it doesn't mean we have to host their loads of off-topic and unhelpful work. There are limits to be enforced on userspace for a reason: Wikipedia isn't a free web hosting service.
On Jan 19, 2008 2:48 PM, Kurt Maxwell Weber kmw@armory.com wrote:
On Saturday 19 January 2008 16:44, Steven Walling wrote:
...and it's not an effective community-building tool like the Facebook.
Says you.
Little wonder we have articles on core topics that sit unimproved when people waste their time like that.
This is a volunteer project. If the people who participate in this wanted to be working on these articles, they'd already be doing that. Getting rid of this doesn't mean they'll spend that time working articles, not in the least.
What's so difficult to understand about that?
It's certainly not hurting anything. Leave it alone.
Kurt Weber kmw@armory.com
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