[Foundation-l] #wikipedia IRC channel guidelines review

[Dan Rosenthal]

On Jul 31, 2007, at 1:55 AM, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen wrote:

>>
>> Why do you think they fail to see #wikipedia as a central place?  
>> Is it
>> too English Wikipedia-focused? Not welcoming enough to speakers of
>> languages other than English? Too off-topic or lewd?
>>
>> ~Mark Ryan
>>
>
> The way I see it, and I suspect most others do, there simply is no  
> need
> *for* a central place. Pure irrelevance IOW. The great strength of  
> wiki
> has always been the fact that not everyone has to be involved with
> everything. Though there is great interleaving, and connection all
> around, with nexus after nexus, no nexus has ever been priviledged.
>
> Even when the Village Pump was still not a firehose, nor split into
> topical sections, tehre were other places like the mailing list and
> VFD, which, while central to their own ambit, needed no "ring to
> bind them all".
>
> --
> Jussi-Ville Heiskanen, ~ [[User:Cimon Avaro]]
>
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Judging from the comments on the meta page, apparently I'm not the  
only one who thinks that the concept (or perhaps application) of  
"catalyzing" is ridiculous.

-Dan Rosenthal