[WikiEN-l] "So fix it." "The next day someone will fix it back."

[charles.r.matthews at ntlworld.com]

Fastfission wrote

> At this point, Wikipedia's epistemology privileges the persistant, the
> dedicated, and those with a lot of free time on their hands. Which is
> a set of qualities which describes both the best _and_ the worst
> editors.

You cited Douglas Hofstadter on [[Douglas Hofstadter]]. He was not given quite the right advice. Better advice would be to post a list of corrections to [[Talk:Douglas Hofstadter]]. 

Think of WP as a coral reef and you get a better picture. You can tell that you are in 'the community' if you are one of those polyps, memorialised by some permanent addition. The reef does actually grow.

Charles

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