------------------------------
Message: 5 Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:28:04 +0100 From: "Charles Matthews" charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Recent goings-on To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: 000001c565b8$67ee3760$c57d0450@Galasien Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original
Skyring wrote
Somewhere along the way, Wikipedia seems to have lost something valuable. I look at this list and just about everything I see is one group of editors bickering with another group.
We gained ... an encyclopedia: 500000 articles in March, 10% added
smoothly
since then.
Nobody should kid themselves that there was ever a golden time when there was no 'bickering'. If you look at the traffic numbers you see huge
growth.
Every month or so an asocial user kicking up a fuss about the way things
are
handled... it's the price we pay for being a radically open community. Remember, this is a big volunteer project; all that happens is that some people simply make it too hard for them to be accepted as volunteers.
Charles
How true that is.