Hoi, This "intentional" part I am not so sure off. Many of us, particularly "power users" are very much connected with others. the amount of social networking around Wikipedia and MediaWiki is enormous and the sad thing is that we do not harness this energy for our own purposes.

For instance if we HAD social networking functionality I would want to have a "Maroon" SIG. Now I find it hard to get people interested in this subject that played such an important role in the history of the Americas. Thanks, GerardM

2009/10/22 Apoc 2400 apoc2400@gmail.com

I don't think the social parts are included in the article count, but we really need to ask someone who has actual experience with these sites. I think it is clear that these sites fill the same role as Wikipedia in China. Perhaps they also fill other roles that we intentionally do not, like gossip, social networking, indiscriminate collection of information...

What I would really want to know is how they deal with vandalism and edit wars. What I think the demise of the Swedish competitor Susning.nu told us, is that less strict more hands-off wiki is very popular with writers and readers, but fails to attract enough administrator types to deal with vandalism. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l