[Foundation-l] FW: [Wikinews-l] Increased incivility atwikinews[en] <warning: contains rant>

[David Goodman]

Wikipedia is free for all to contribute, if they want to contribute to
Wikipedia, which is a group project designed   to diminish personal
attachment, and means editing in a cooperative way. People who want to
write articles and get it their way are more likely to succeed if they
write them by themselves in the conventional way.

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:50 PM, Phil Boswell <phil.boswell at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> Andre Engels wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:30 AM, Phil Nash <pn007a2145 at blueyonder.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry, my experience is different; there are some editors whose
>>> behavioural
>>> problems go on, and on, and on, yet are tolerated, because they
>>> contribute
>>> "good content". But the overhead to others drains volunteer resources.
>>
>> I can raise you on that - there are editors whose behavioral problems
>> go on and on, and yet they are tolerated because Wikipedia should be
>> free for all, and besides if one person has fights with ten different
>> people, then those ten people should stop ganging up on him...
>>
> Absolutely, and that one "super editor" will be defended by people with
> their own agenda.
>
> This is the basic reason why, instead of working out the minor technical
> trouble I was having with AWB which curtailed my useful work, I took it as a
> handy excuse to cut way back on my involvement.
>
> I haven't been called a "nasty little Tony Sidaway sidekick" for months upon
> months: I don't know what Tony thinks about it, but I for one don't miss it
> at all.
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