[WikiEN-l] Something new under the sun

[Ian A Holton]

It's not about them wasting their time, as that is not for us to decide.
It's not the way the community expects the hosting services provided by
Wikipedia to be used. It's also not what we want people to associate
Wikipedia with. That, in my opinion, is the point.

Ian [[User: Poeloq]]

On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 14:44 -0800, Steven Walling wrote:
> I think that's excessive use of userspace. It has absolutely nothing to do
> with building an encyclopedia, and it's not an effective community-building
> tool like the Facebook. Little wonder we have articles on core topics that
> sit unimproved when people waste their time like that.
> 
> On Jan 19, 2008 6:12 AM, David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 19/01/2008, George Herbert <george.herbert at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > User making a choose-your-own-adventure under their userpage:
> > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:PrincessKirlia/Shop/The_book
> >
> >
> > New? Uncyclopedia has an entire namespace devoted to
> > choose-your-own-adventures: http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/Game:Game
> >
> >
> > > Probably should be politely discouraged, and pointed at a free web
> > > hosting company that offers wikis, but I'm tempted to let them alone
> > > and see what they do with it.
> >
> >
> > Games Wikia (http://games.wikia.com/wiki/Wikigames) was created
> > because of people using Wikipedia for play-by-wiki games.
> >
> >
> > - d.
> >
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Ian A Holton [[User:Poeloq]]

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