On 4 December 2011 16:58, Charles Matthews <charles.r.matth...@ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 4 December 2011 03:56, Tony Sidaway <tonysida...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> http://daggle.com/closed-unfriendly-world-wikipedia-2853 >> >> Now whatever the merits of his case, this chap does have a point about >> the unfriendliness of the environment. > > > Well covered in The Signpost, in fact.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that. That's very good coverage. > But I came away thinking that there > is a misconception behind the "complaint". Put it this way: who is the > customer? That turns out to be a rhetorical question: the customer is the > reader. If the customer was the writer, or the person who feels he/she > should have a Wikipedia page about them, the tone of the complaint would be > more justified. The wiki model of content production makes no distinction between reader and editor. > > >> It isn't so much that we've >> gone out of our way to be unfriendly, but the tool we use to >> interact--the wiki, in other words--isn't really very fit for the >> purpose. >> >> > Considering that Wikipedia is the "killer app" for wikis, the comment seems > a bit off-beam. What we have done is to stress-test the wiki concept by > making a wiki at least two orders of magnitude larger than would have been > been thought reasonable in the year 2000. I think you're missing my point that the processes we're running on the wiki--not the content--are what the tool is unsuitable for. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
