[WikiEN-l] oopsie-- mainstream journalists trust Wikipedia again

[Steve Summit]

Marc Riddell wrote:
>on 10/7/07 11:40 AM, Steve Summit at scs at eskimo.com wrote:
>> Remember, too, that Wikipedia is supposed to be a community
>> second (or, idealistically, not at all) and an encyclopedia-
>> writing project first.
>> 
>> The nice thing about all this emotional hand-wringing policy
>> stuff is that a lot of the time, you can just ignore it...
>> and get on with the task of writing the encyclopedia.
>
> You miss a huge point here, Steve. An "encyclopedia-writing project"
> is a collaboration of a community of people...

Thanks, but I do I understand that point!  (All too well.)
That's why I wrote "is supposed to be" instead of "is",
and "idealistically" instead of "ideally".

The point remains that the community stuff, while it can't be
denied, is supposed to come second.  And I stand by my second
point, too. :-)