Gregory Maxwell wrote:
You seem have odd notions about how much work, beyond babysitting their pet article and windbagging on lists, that a majority of our volunteers are willing to perform. _______________________________________________
Part of the problem attracting interest in what others choose to define as "work" is this mindset of telling others to shut up and get back to work or attempting to shut down information flow by calling others "windbags" or implying if they will not volunteer for your personally defined most important task they should minimize the impact on the mailing list.
This was chanted early and often by our lead editors and founding members. I arrived at 39k and counting. Now the English wikipedia has well over a million articles and counting and a few people on this list, which as I understand it is not the wikipedia english list, are presenting issues around the quality of articles throughout the english Wikipedia as a possibly generic problem with wiki data products built by internet volunteers. Shutting up and adding another article to the pile will not resolve this or many other issues which the Wikimedia Foundation is experiencing.
Feel free to ignore my posts. It will reduce the wind for the next few days, weeks, or months substantially.
I intend to particpate heavily in this list until it becomes time to initialize wikiversity and I shall vamoose for a while until in my perception it becomes advantageous to my pet project with wikiversity to show up and absorb some more information regarding the politics, organization, and procedures that seem to be impacting my preferred tasks in less than optimal ways.
I know little of your background but I will share with you in case it has escaped your attention that even when you are paying people it is usually counter productive to "yell shut up and get back to work" unless you are running an old style sweatshop or have very specific well defined tasks and plenty of supervisors standing around playing gestapo.
Modern business practice in the U.S. has generally concluded the getstapo overhead is too high to remain competitive. Perhaps this is true even when not paying some or most of the work force?
Have a nice day.
regards, lazyquasar