[WikiEN-l] Poetry thread

[Mark Nilrad]

So, it appears that after the poetry thread is declared dead on arrival, it revives itself. Weird.

Anyway, moving this topic in another direction (without rhyming couplets), I want to say that not having fun is really a, ahem, serious pastime for a lot of people. People (yes, that's a WW) criticize Wikipedia for taking it seriously, and perhaps it's because a lot of editors can't find a modicum of joy in editing in Wikipedia. I wonder how you can spend hours doing something so serious. The reason I slave away on it, doing a lot of grunt work, is because it's fun to me (in the end, at least). I hope other editors can feel the same way.

Mark




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From: Scientia Potentia est <bibliomaniac_15 at yahoo.com>
To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 15, 2009 10:49:30 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Poetry thread

Durova, you forgot the cardinal rule of Wikipedia, which is that any semblance of fun is strictly forbidden, on order of the cabal. I mean, seriously, why would we edit it for FUN?

bibliomaniac15

--- On Sat, 3/14/09, Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com> wrote:
From: Durova <nadezhda.durova at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Poetry thread
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Date: Saturday, March 14, 2009, 7:31 PM

Let's stop fighting like caterwauls and doggerels. ;)

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net>
wrote:

> Durova wrote:
> > There was no prior conflict as far as I know.  Just good faith
> > misunderstanding.
>
> Excellent
> > All in the pursuit of good doggerel.
> Caterwaul in pursuit of doggerel bites its own tail.
>
> Ec
>
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