On Mar 10, 2005, at 12:04 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:
What about the vast majority of our readers who have needs that are being ignored while certain individuals ride their private hobby horses?
Er, that is what I do already by writing about the things I find to be interesting. That is the hobby horse I ride. Why is this wrong?
-- mav
The illusion of the growth phase of branded anarchy is that the people will just roll in and nothing needs to be done, if everyone just does what they like all will be well. This is an illusion, the very phase that wikipedia is going through right now requires an attention to the next phase - where retention, and not recruitment, will drive success of the project.
There have been hundreds of messages about small language wikipedias, and a handful about the social structure and credibility of wikipedai. Starting a wikipedia in (fill in the blank language) is far less important than dealing with credibility issues, and with the interaction problems in wikipedia, and with ideas to promote wikipedia to the larger world.