[Foundation-l] Message to community about community decline

[Ryan Kaldari]

On 3/28/11 5:20 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
> There's a theory that doing something like editing a free online
> encyclopedia is a niche activity, with a finite amount of people who will
> ever be willing to participate. If we accept this theory, it makes the very
> strong focus on increased participation look rather silly.

So we should just be satisfied with our Pokemon articles and leave it at 
that?

I for one would like to one day see a Wikipedia that isn't obviously 
written by people like us, i.e. white male American geeks. Maybe it 
would include better articles on children's literature, cooking, 
hip-hop, knitting, sharia law, wine, and African dance. Maybe it would 
have more featured articles on books than video games. Maybe it's 
article on sexism would be about more than just the Men's Rights 
Movement. Maybe it would include statistics from places like Brazil and 
Mozambique instead of just the United States and Texas.

Now that I think about it, I believe it would actually be a pretty 
awesome website. Too bad we'll never let that happen.

Ryan Kaldari