On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 02:49:33PM -0400, Simetrical wrote:
But none of this will necessarily happen if you didn't do something to commit yourself first. It's the "foot in the door" principle: people who start small will be more willing to proceed to bigger things than they will be to start out with big things. What were *your* first edits to Wikipedia?
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Contributions&offset=2...
plus about 4 or 5 where I thought I was logged in but it didn't stick; you'll note, my first logged contribution was a *bug report on that issue*.
But I've been doing this sort of thing for 25 years, and I *understand* that I'm not the mainstream user.
That does not, and will not, stop me from Wishing and Hoping that people will decide to Want to Learn again.
Cheers, -- jra