On Feb 26, 2007, at 8:40 PM, T P wrote:
I noted elsewhere that, as a volunteeer effort, Wikipedia is primarily written to satisfiy the needs of the writers.
and
Practically speaking, what matters is the opinions of the people working on Wikipedia, because you sure as hell aren't going to "fix" Wikipedia just because outsiders think it's broken.
There's not much to say here. Both of these statements are, I think, 100% wrong. They are the polar opposite of how Wikipedia should work. They represent the exact instinct that causes many of the problems I've been describing here. I think it is vital that we do everything we can to resist these attitudes on every conceivable level.
-Phil