[Foundation-l] Why should Wikimedians meet?

[Oliver Keyes]

OMG I MET ROBERT I LUV HIM SO is disruptive. "Does anyone know where he was
educated? It isn't listed" is potentially helpful. And so on.

On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 1:44 AM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:

> Oliver Keyes wrote:
> > Agreed. A good example; on the English Wikipedia, I'm a massive law nerd
> > with 40-something legal GAs and FAs to my name. I'd never even have
> studied
> > the subject if it wasn't for a group of Wikipedians, some of whom have
> later
> > helped me with or collaborated on articles. The importance of social
> > interaction cannot be understated, and it's why I have no truck with some
> of
> > the more severe "OMG WIKIPEDIA IS NOT MYSPACE" people. People come here
> to
> > build a collaborative encyclopaedia, yes, not to socially interact - but
> the
> > key word there is "collaborative". Social contact is inevitable and
> > incredibly helpful to us as a community; hells, it's what *makes us* a
> > community and not just a hundred thousand people who independently agree
> > that Wikipedia is nifty.
> One of the more annoying of the anti-social species is the kind that
> becomes annoyed when talk page comments wander a little off topic, and
> claim that this is contrary to the talk page's single purpose of
> improving what's in article space.  The improvement to the article from
> these off topic comments may be somewhat oblique, but it can improve
> one's understanding of the topic and of the person commenting.
>
> Ray
>
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