Yes, we must embrace the dull business of maintaining an encyclopedia.
Fred
-----Original Message----- From: William Pietri [mailto:william@scissor.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 07:07 PM To: 'English Wikipedia' Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] drama and incivility
Christiano Moreschi wrote:
[...] Most people don't have anything to write any more, so they start fighting instead. Seeing [[Africa]] as a redlink and writing "Africa is a continent" is fun, but that doesn't happen anymore (and "Africa is a big continent" is no longer an FA). So, people turn to drama as an alternative, because conflict is fun as well. A shame, but in this respect enwiki has become the victim of its own succcess. [...]
That's a very interesting point. It reminds me of some large-company offices I have visited.
My worry would be that this is a self-reinforcing process. That drama would drive out people with no taste for drama, increasing the fun gap between drama and serious work.
Is that inevitable? I hope not, but all the solutions that pop to mind involve... more drama.
William
-- William Pietri william@scissor.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:William_Pietri
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