[WikiEN-l] Some Observations

[geni]

On 28/11/2007, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 28/11/2007, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
> > David Gerard wrote:
> > > On 28/11/2007, Phoenix wiki wrote:
>
> > >> I was under the impresion that most of us edited edited the mainspace on a
> > >> regular basis anyway. Maybe not...
>
> > > It's a fatal trap for admins, and even more so once you accumulate a
> > > few more jobs (on the local wiki or cross-wiki/Foundation level), to
> > > never quite get around to doing the thing that was so much fun and
> > > lured you here in the first place, i.e. writing an encyclopedia ...
>
> > In the real world I have encountered engineers who spent many years
> > getting the required certification so that they can build things, but
> > end up in company's management shuffling paper. :-)
>
>
> Of course, that could never happen to us. No no no.
>
> (At my work we vastly enjoy making fun of techies who've made the
> mistake of going for one promotion too many and now spend their
> working lives ENTIRELY in Outlook and Excel, in that order. If they
> write any code we help them keep it secret from *their* boss.)
>
> Brian McNeil (Wikinews) posted to foundation-l a suggestion of a
> Wikimedia toolbar for Firefox that would count your page views and
> suggest a cash donation to WMF when you'd reached 100 Wikimedia pages
> or whatever. I suggest an extra feature: you can pay in cash *or*
> effort - copyedit 20 pages, start 1 good new stub (three paragraphs
> and two references) or deal with one sad crippled orphan from
> {{cleanup}}. There is in fact a Wikipedia toolbar for Firefox:
>
> http://wikipedia.mozdev.org/
>
> - anyone want to add a donation-nag function?
>

No. I can rack up 100 page views in less than 5 min (normaly when
cleaning out the fromowner backlog after being away for a week).


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geni