[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia is a work in progress

[Sharon, Lois Bram]

I tried to help improve it, and got attacked.

I'm still deciding whether or not I really want to continue and risk that
again. At the moment, I'm leaning towards not. It doesn't make sense to do
so when people who have the power to cause me so much pain are apparently
completely disrespectful of honest contributors and of the rules that I was
expected to follow.

There are some good and honest people here, there were some very helpful
people who helped me fix things and learn to edit earlier. It's sad that
there are also real jerks who appear to be running wikipedia.

If there is not a level playing field between administrators and normal
users, then there is no point in trying to contribute, and that statement
should be updated to reflect this. I don't think if this is the case that it
will necessarily be better in 6 years, or 60 years, or 600 years either, no
matter what promises someone makes.

[[user:One Elephant went out to play...]]

On 3/15/07, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_is_a_work_in_progress
>
> Great essay by User:Qxz. "So, if you rely on Wikipedia in its current
> state, that's your problem. We're not done with it, and we never said
> it would be any good – we only said it would be free. If you aren't
> satisfied with it now, help improve it, or come back in another six
> years and take a look then. It'll be better. We promise."
>
>
> - d.
>
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