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[Ray Saintonge]

Zoney wrote:

>On 08/05/07, Matthew Brown <morven at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>We're not professional.  Except for a tiny bunch of people who work
>>for the Foundation, we're all volunteers and our time is not
>>especially coordinated.  Wikipedia is what it is, and part of that is
>>that we've grown faster than our organization has.
>>    
>>
>The project should be managed professionally if it is indeed a serious
>project. 
>
Absolutely not!!!

>Otherwise it's all just a bit of a larf and it'll eventually come
>crashing down. 
>
Had we been so professional from the beginning we would never have risen 
high enough to be able to come crashing down.

>However, the project *is* taken seriously by those of us
>involved, and attempts to pass itself off as a serious endeavour. Indeed
>that mostly works, and so a large section of the media and the public take
>the project seriously (maybe they shouldn't). 
>
Maybe they shouldn't indeed, but they do.  We take it seriously because 
we believe, and not because seriousness is an end in itself.  
Seriousness without soul is pomposity.

Ec