From: wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-bounces@Wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Sam Korn Sent: Sunday, 8 January 2006 09:04 To: English Wikipedia Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Unused userboxes
On 1/7/06, Peter Mackay peter.mackay@bigpond.com wrote:
Perhaps if they weren't being stirred up, they might be doing more work in articlespace, hmmmm? And if they are doing *some* work in articlespace, it doesn't really matter if they are having a
party in
userspace the rest of the time. What's the aim of the game:
to build
an encyclopaedia or to kick newbies?
Actually, their insensitive use of templates and categories puts unnecessary load on the servers. That is harmful to Wikipedia.
Fine. Let's go through all admin user pages, strip out the templates and argue from the moral high ground.
Peter (Skyring)