2009/8/11 Marc Riddell <michaeldavi...@comcast.net>: > Is anyone really surprised at this? On this very List people are constantly > bragging about how wonderful Wikipedia is; focusing exclusively on how big > it is. Yet completely ignoring how screwed up the culture is. It's like a
I'm really not seeing the same level of unalloyed positivity you are. Speaking for myself, I've said on several occasions over the past two or three years, both here and elsewhere, that our culture has significant systemic problems. When discussing this, I never felt I was alone in this opinion; it's widely held amongst a sizeable fraction of my "contemporaries", people who've been involved for a few years and had the opportunity to see the cultural shifts. This cultural dysfunctionality is a real problem; it has been a real problem as long as I can remember; and it's getting worse. As you say, the people who deny it exists aren't helping anyone deal with it. But, conversely, assuming that no-one beyond a few lone voices know or care about it doesn't help us deal with it either. -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
