[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia as a cult

[Steven Walling]

>
> Trotskyists value themselves on the amounts of "newspapers" they
>   have sold.
>   - Trotskyists spend more time discussing policy that actually doing
>   groundwork.
>   - Trotskyists would rather die than have a kind word for somebody who
>   has left the movement.


Uh, as to the count/newspaper criticism: Many editors  are vehemenentely
against editcountitis; there is a whole page about it, as well as a userbox
that says "this user does not think an editor's edit count reflects the
quality of their contributions". And a healthy minority of longstanding
editors don't ever check their count.

As to the policy to contributing ratio, there is no evidence supporting any
math on how much talk or writing is done comparatively. Also, wouldn't it
make perfect sense that an organization based on a collaborative process
would spend a large amount of time discussing? If people didn't talk, then
it would just be a constant mass edit war and nothing would get done.

Lastly, for evidence to contrary of the "no kind words for those who have
left in anger or protest" check out User:Phadriel's (aka Sharon K.) WikiLove
homage to those who have left or been forced to leave...

-steven


On 6/24/07, K P <kpbotany at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/24/07, SonOfYoungwood at aol.com <SonOfYoungwood at aol.com> wrote:
> > I was in a christian cult for years (one of many reasons why I'm
> atheist).  I
> > know what a cult is, and Wikipedia is NOT a cult. Except
> for  Wikilawyers.
> >
> > - Deckiller
> >
> >
> >
> > ************************************** See what's free at
> http://www.aol.com.
> And wikiadmins, most certainly a cult.  No wait, that's shopping cart.
>
> Who are these people who respond well to criticism from outsiders?
> And what's wrong with them?
>
> How do I find my edit count, by the way?  I tried doing that thing
> that's over at RfA, the math tool at the bottom of the nomination, and
> I swear I saw an edit count once before using it, and a way to see my
> own, but it just says I don't have authorization to access it (yeah, I
> won't ask why or what, I wouldn't want anyone to have to kill me).
>
> KP
>
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