[WikiEN-l] Game-playing on Wikipedia

[Jack Lynch]

I donno, but your spot on about the nerds. The wikipedia makes me want
to nerd-bashing, like that rival frat in "revenge of the nerds"

Jack

On 7/3/05, Skyring <skyring at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/4/05, daniwo59 at aol.com <daniwo59 at aol.com> wrote:
> > I dont see how this comment about Checkers, from the Department of Fun  page,
> > helps to build an encyclopedia:
> >
> > "Play checkers at Wikipedia and reduce your stress. No editing, patrolling,
> > or anything else is allowed during this time!"
> >
> > This is not at all what the Department of Fun was intended to be. It was a
> > tool to help build an encyclopedia. It was never intended as a tool to keep
> > people from editing, as this statement clearly asserts.
> 
> Clearly it has *increased* the stress level of some editors.
> 
> Someone was talking about EQ, which I've since forgotten whether it
> stands for Emotion or Empathy. Something more San Francisco than
> Cambridge, anyway.
> 
> I'm wondering whether the heat and hatred I see on Wikipedia is the
> result of a bunch of anal-retentive nerds being pushed together. In
> fact, some of the discussion and attitudes displayed here are exactly
> what you'd expect if you got a large group of propeller-heads together
> and forced them to co-operate and converse without the use of
> emoticons.
> 
> Slashdot is a similar large project, explicitly aimed at the nerds of
> the world. Does anyone know how they relieve stress?
> 
> --
> Peter in Canberra
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