Daniel Mayer wrote:
On Monday 11 November 2002 09:39 pm, wikipedia-l-request@wikipedia.org wrote:
Well, folks, I've had enough for now. I can't continue these conversations, because they are taking far too much of my time; I couldn't do them justice if I wanted to. You also won't see me much anytime soon on Wikipedia itself. I really do apologize to those (few, no doubt) who thought I was a positive influence recently. I wish I had the time, energy, and patience to continue, and I hope you'll keep fighting the good fight.
Just like a philosopher! :-) He seeds the newsgroup with prolix thoughts to consider, and sits back to watch us argue.
There were a hell of a lot of posts on Monday but that was probably due to en.wiki being down and everybody flooding the mailing list because they didn't have anything else to do.
Clearly a symptom of acute wikiholism! My mailbox was clear before I went to bed, and there were 77 new messages when I woke up.
One thing that Wikipedia lacks right now is credibility and reliability. One thing that projects like Nupedia has is a lack of material and contributors. The new project you are working on will add credibility to many Wikipedia articles and thus dramatically improve their usefullness.
They need each other for those very reasons. Together they reflect the interplay between quantity and quality - an infinite series which hopefully converges. Eclecticology