[WikiEN-l] Eschatology and Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 21 December 2010 23:55, Carcharoth <carcharothwp at googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2010 at 11:04 PM, wiki <doc.wikipedia at ntlworld.com> wrote:

>> But..... where we are in competition with others is for the time of the
>> undergraduate/graduate who sits down to squander some time on the internet.

> I've had similar thoughts, but more general, thinking that the
> internet in general has more potential for people to "waste their
> time" than ever before. How many scientific theorems and great books


I was chatting with User:Ciphergoth the other week about getting
people involved in stuff. He occasionally asks people "if you see a
typo in Wikipedia, do you fix it?" And people *just don't do that*.
This is something that needs remedying.


- d.