[Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)

Peter Southwood peter.southwood at telkomsa.net
Mon May 13 08:09:05 UTC 2013


That was actually my point.
Cheers,
Peter
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Alexander" <jamesofur at gmail.com>
To: "Wikimedia Mailing List" <wikimedia-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 9:03 AM
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Go away, community (from WMF wiki at least)


> On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 12:00 AM, Peter Southwood <
> peter.southwood at telkomsa.net> wrote:
>
>> Lets get a few things in perspective:
>> 1. How many community members were abusive/unreasonable/whatever beyond
>> what might be considered a startle reaction to an apparent attack without
>> warning?
>> 2 How many people constitute this community
>> Divide answer 1 by answer 2
>>
>> Consider how much of the response was a snowball effect of frustration 
>> due
>> to a distinct shortage of explanation and direct answers to what might be
>> considered reasonable questions.
>>
>> And yes, "Welcome to Wikipedia "
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Peter
>>
>
> 2 is an unreasonable number to divide by when it's such a small cross
> section of the actual community on these lists.
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