[WikiEN-l] Ayn Rand and Wikipedia

[Anthony]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 6:33 PM, Steve Summit <scs at eskimo.com> wrote:

> Will Johnson wrote:
> > In a message dated 11/12/2008 12:47:23 PM Pacific Standard Time,
> > charlottethewebb at gmail.com writes:
> >> In what way is the history tab unusable? Are you saying you would
> >> prefer an alternate view which lists users in descending order by
> >> number of edits to the page (rather than listing edits by user and
> >> timestamp)? There's something on the toolserver which does just that..
> >
> > That could fit the bill.  If WP would make something like that an
> official
> > part of the system.  Then we could see at a glance, that an article was
> > 90% by myself or only 2% or whatever.
>
> I'm late to this thread, so pardon me if I'm repeating, but I'm
> *glad* that it's not obvious who wrote an article.  I like to
> think of Wikipedia as being written by some large number of
> anonymous contributors, one of whom happens to be me.  Even asking
> whether an article was written 90% by me or 2% or whatever --
> to me, that sounds perilously close to WP:OWN.


Thanks.  I think that proves my point.  Wikipedia has been taken over by
altruists.