I got one too. Is this going to be a WikiChainLetter? ;-)
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Martin" kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Fwd: Wikipedia e-mail: Bad decision! Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 12:44:19 -0600
Comments from the peanut gallery. I felt like forwarding this somewhere, so I am.
Kelly ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IZAK simshalom@att.net Date: Jan 9, 2006 12:04 PM Subject: Wikipedia e-mail: Bad decision! To: Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com
Hi Kelly: When most people log on they are taken to the Main Page, and the ArbCom vote link should be on EVERY article, putting it on watchlists marginalizes it, and if you have a rule that users need to be active for a few months then their vote won't be registered regardless of what page they come from. At this stage it's more important to educate new users and the public about an important vote taking place within Wikipedia than to have the request for MONEY on every page which makes Wikipedia look greedy after they just raised around $300,000, don't you think? Get rid of the merchandising and commercializing junk and mention the ArbCom stuff that is more to the core of what Wikipedia is about, a participatory effort and not just a scheme to raise money. Some of us are having trouble writing and editing articles with that flashing "Dollar sign" on top of every page. I hope you understand the importance of this. It's about the kind of image Wikipedia wants to project about itself, an d someone has made a bad decision here lately it seems to me. IZAK. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
On 1/9/06, Jim Cecropia jcecropia@mail.com wrote:
Comments from the peanut gallery. I felt like forwarding this somewhere, so I am.
Kelly ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: IZAK simshalom@att.net Date: Jan 9, 2006 12:04 PM Subject: Wikipedia e-mail: Bad decision! To: Kelly Martin kelly.lynn.martin@gmail.com
Hi Kelly: When most people log on they are taken to the Main Page, and the ArbCom vote link should be on EVERY article, putting it on watchlists marginalizes it, and if you have a rule that users need to be active for a few months then their vote won't be registered regardless of what page they come from. At this stage it's more important to educate new users and the public about an important vote taking place within Wikipedia than to have the request for MONEY on every page which makes Wikipedia look greedy after they just raised around $300,000, don't you think? Get rid of the merchandising and commercializing junk and mention the ArbCom stuff that is more to the core of what Wikipedia is about, a participatory effort and not just a scheme to raise money. Some of us are having trouble writing and editing articles with that flashing "Dollar sign" on top of every page. I hope you understand the importance of this. It's about the kind of image Wikipedia wants to project about itself, an d someone has made a bad decision here lately it seems to me. IZAK. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@Wikipedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
To address the point that was brought up in this apparent chain letter, I happen to like what's been done about the box. You have to admit it was a bit annoying to have that big honking yellow box at the top of everything you were doing. At least we've returned to the clean site design we've all come to know and love.
-- I'm not stupid, just selectively ignorant.