[Foundation-l] WLM (was Re: On curiosity, cats and scapegoats)

[Milos Rancic]

On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 17:50, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> could you may be briefly summarize your arguments against WLM, I think
> they belong here rather than to internal-l.
>
> Whereas I am not a fan of competitions and believe that they should not
> belong to the wiki culture, in my opinion WLM still fills Commons with
> pictures which are (i) relevant and some of them are good quality (ii) are
> immediately used (iii) get attention, i.e. properly categorized etc . I do
> not see immediately any bad sides (except for the usual fact thing some
> people work, and others get credit, but this is unavoidable for the
> organization of this size).

There are no bad sides per se, it's just about my authoritarian worldview.

And my authoritarian worldview tells to me that it is not the time to
discuss about my authoritarian worldview, as the WLM has positive
outcome, after all and we have more important issues now.