If we saved one person's life, at least to me, that's worth more than writing a thousand featured articles. Things like this put things like "building an encyclopedia" into perspective....
On 4/7/07, Steve Summit scs@eskimo.com wrote:
Moreschi wrote:
OK, sure, but when you have community for the sake of community that's
the
sort of stuff you can expect to put up with. Wikipedia has an
encyclopedic
purpose distinct from that: we are not supposed to be collection of self-help services, suicide prevention, and social services all rolled into one.
And for the most part, we're not. But turns out that *you can't escape the community stuff*. Any time you get a bunch of people working together on something, the community aspects are going to surface, whether you want them to or not. You can try to mitigate them, but you can't eliminate them, and if you try too hard, you'll royally piss people off, to everyone's detriment.
If you haven't read "A Group is Its Own Worst Enemy", do so: http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html .
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