[WikiEN-l] drama and incivility

[K P]

Every day on Wikipedia I come across shockingly major scientists who
don't have articles, while every Pokeman card in the universe is
well-catalogued.  Species?  We don't even have decent articles on the
two dozen or so model organisms that each have hundreds of major
citations.  Today I found a nobel prize winner in physics whose topic
we don't even appear to have an article on.

KP

On 8/28/07, Christiano Moreschi <moreschiwikiman at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >From: Aude <audevivere at gmail.com>
> >Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> >To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> >Subject: [WikiEN-l] drama and incivility
> >Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2007 12:06:39 -0400
> >
> >Some messages that come through this mailing list, such as the recent NY
> >Times article on BLP issues, are good to receive.  I like being informed
> >about such matters relevant to Wikipedia.  Others like all "Go away, you
> >trolling fuckwit." have no place on the mailing list.   Am I the only one
> >here annoyed with such messages?  Why can't we be more cordial and polite
> >towards one another?  It's gotten to the point where I may unsubscribe.
> >
> >The drama here, along with AN/I and other places is souring my opinion
> >about
> >contributing to Wikipedia.  Why bother anymore?  I still like the ideals
> >behind the project and wish to continue, but would really like it if we can
> >please tone down the drama and be more civil and cordial towards one
> >another?  If people can't control themselves, then maybe this list could
> >use
> >moderation.  Though if the moderator is engaging such language, that's not
> >good.
> >
> >--
> >Aude
>
> You'll never get rid of enwiki drama, certainly not on enwiki mailing lists.
>
> Simple reason? Most people don't have anything to write any more, so they
> start fighting instead. Seeing [[Africa]] as a redlink and writing "Africa
> is a continent" is fun, but that doesn't happen anymore (and "Africa is a
> big continent" is no longer an FA). So, people turn to drama as an
> alternative, because conflict is fun as well. A shame, but in this respect
> enwiki has become the victim of its own succcess. Antandrus talks about this
> better than I can.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Antandrus/observations_on_Wikipedia_behavior
>
> Particularly numbers 19 and 20.
>
> C More schi
>
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