[Wikipedia-l] Re: contributions to HU wiki
apogr
info at apogr.hu
Thu Jun 3 08:05:09 UTC 2004
Thanks again, although I am only interested in theoretical issues of the WP,
and would hate to be involved in personnel policies, or used in any "power
struggle".
But it is a fact, that I originally wrote "practising paranoia", which is
not the same as calling someone paranoid- as it has been rightly pointed out
by Ralesk Ne'vennoyx
apogr
> apogr wrote:
> > Thank you!
> > Being blocked from making modest experimental contibutions is not a big
> > issue after all.But if it may happen to other people in the Huwiki as
well,
> > you will not have the discussions going on any term, a
> > proposition that can be easily asserted by looking at the number of
> > contributors for each item/term.
> > And in that case the number of potential wikipedians will not grow in
HUW,
> > and neither will the number of entries properly produced. On the other
hand,
> > if HUWP is a one man show only, it must be no fun for any
> > other volunteers either.
> > apogr
> >
> If in the end he is indeed found to be a burden to the Hungarian
> Wikipédia project (as opposed to being a burden to only a few volunteers
> who might or might not raise their voice about it), I am inclined to
> ask: whom else could we give sysop powers that is often around, is
> responsible, and knows what and when to do?
>
> > P.S. Paranoia means misunderstanding: para - “at or to one side of,
beside,
> > side by side” (parabola; paragraph; parallel; paralysis), “beyond, past,
by”
> > (paradox; paragogue);. noia combining form from Greek, where it meant
> > “thought”:
> >
> A brilliant example of how different a meaning can become when a word is
> being used by those not in the know of the original meaning of the word.
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