On 28/11/2007, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 28/11/2007, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 28/11/2007, Phoenix wiki wrote:
I was under the impresion that most of us edited edited the mainspace on a regular basis anyway. Maybe not...
It's a fatal trap for admins, and even more so once you accumulate a few more jobs (on the local wiki or cross-wiki/Foundation level), to never quite get around to doing the thing that was so much fun and lured you here in the first place, i.e. writing an encyclopedia ...
In the real world I have encountered engineers who spent many years getting the required certification so that they can build things, but end up in company's management shuffling paper. :-)
Of course, that could never happen to us. No no no.
(At my work we vastly enjoy making fun of techies who've made the mistake of going for one promotion too many and now spend their working lives ENTIRELY in Outlook and Excel, in that order. If they write any code we help them keep it secret from *their* boss.)
Brian McNeil (Wikinews) posted to foundation-l a suggestion of a Wikimedia toolbar for Firefox that would count your page views and suggest a cash donation to WMF when you'd reached 100 Wikimedia pages or whatever. I suggest an extra feature: you can pay in cash *or* effort - copyedit 20 pages, start 1 good new stub (three paragraphs and two references) or deal with one sad crippled orphan from {{cleanup}}. There is in fact a Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox:
- anyone want to add a donation-nag function?
No. I can rack up 100 page views in less than 5 min (normaly when cleaning out the fromowner backlog after being away for a week).