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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 31 May 2005 08:28:04 +0100
From: "Charles Matthews" <charles.r.matthews(a)ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Recent goings-on
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
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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.